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👤 Persona Path

YOLO Dev (Built at 2am)

Tactical fixes for critical gaps - shore up what you skipped when shipping fast

1h 23m Total Time
10 Topics
3 Milestones

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What You'll Learn

  • Identify and fix critical security vulnerabilities
  • Add basic monitoring and incident response
  • Implement safe deployment practices
  • Build foundation for production reliability

Journey Milestones

1

Critical Security Fixes

Address security gaps that could bite you

S threat modeling 8m
S secure coding practices 10m
S secret management 8m
S security testing 10m
2

Production Survival Kit

Essential operations to keep things running

S deployment strategy 12m
S monitoring logging 10m
S backup recovery 10m
S incident response 10m
3

Quality Baseline

Minimum testing to catch obvious bugs

S unit integration testing 10m
S code review process 7m

Completion Criteria

  • Critical security vulnerabilities identified and mitigated
  • Secrets removed from version control
  • Basic monitoring and alerting in place
  • Rollback capability for deployments
  • Essential backups configured

What's Next

After completing this path, you might want to:

  • Once immediate fires are out, consider Production Ready track
  • For deeper security work, review Security Hardening track
  • Set up regular retrospectives to prevent future 2am coding sessions