Observability
If you like applying Observability, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Flatten the Datadog Bill for a Stockholm Gaming Studio
Working only from the materials provided, audit Stagelight Games' observability spend and produce a defensible plan to flatten it. Use the metric inventory export to rank the to…
- Cardinality Control
- Datadog
- Cost Optimization
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design Structured JSON Logging for a Healthcare Rails Monolith
Working only from the three materials provided, design and propose a structured-logging migration for the Rails monolith. Study the current logger configuration (provided code m…
- Structured Logging
- Loki
- Phi Redaction
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Golden-Path Service Template for a Scaling SaaS Platform Team
Using the current-state assessment (provided), the platform team's golden-path requirements specification (provided), and the baseline deployment-metrics dataset (provided), des…
- Platform Engineering
- Golden Paths
- Backstage
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Observability Injection: Distributed Tracing via Sidecars
Enable Envoy tracing with the OpenTelemetry tracer in Istio MeshConfig. Configure a Tempo backend with a Grafana frontend. Verify W3C tracecontext propagation across all 26 serv…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Envoy
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Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- StrategyBeginnerNew
Maintenance Plan for a Donated NGO Web Platform
Run an inventory: dependencies (with known-CVE check), secret exposure, test coverage, deploy process, observability, and on-call. Author a 12-month maintenance plan covering pr…
- Software Maintenance
- Dependency Management
- Security Hardening
Software Engineering Foundations
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