Quick Journey
Code Works But Keeps Breaking
Your app works in development but fails in production - here's how to fix it
1h 10m Total Time
6 Steps
Quick journeys typically take under an hour
What You'll Learn
- Understand why production differs from development
- Implement basic observability to catch issues
- Add safety nets for deployments
- Build foundation for reliable operations
Journey Steps
1
monitoring logging surface
10m You can't fix what you can't see - add basic monitoring first
2
monitoring logging mid-depth
25m Dig into logs to understand failure patterns
Key questions:
- What patterns appear in the logs before failures?
- Are errors clustered around deployments?
- What's different between dev and production?
3
unit integration testing mid-depth
25m Catch bugs before they reach production
4
deployment strategy mid-depth
25m Ship safely with ability to rollback quickly
5
incident response surface
10m Have a plan for when things break (they will)
6
retrospectives surface
10m Learn from each incident to prevent the next one