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YOLO Dev (Built at 2am)
Tactical fixes for critical gaps - shore up what you skipped when shipping fast
83
Minutes
3
Milestones
10
Steps
Surface
Depth Focus
What You'll Accomplish
- Identify and fix critical security vulnerabilities
- Add basic monitoring and incident response
- Implement safe deployment practices
- Build foundation for production reliability
1
Critical Security Fixes
Address security gaps that could bite you
Step 1
Required
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Threat Modeling
List 3 things an attacker could do - takes 15 minutes, could save your app
� Checkpoint: Have you identified at least 3 potential threats to your system?
8 min
Step 2
Required
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Secure Coding Practices
Fix SQL injection, XSS, and other critical vulnerabilities
10 min
Step 3
Required
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Secret Management
Get credentials out of your code before someone finds them
� Checkpoint: Are all secrets removed from version control?
8 min
Step 4
Required
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Security Testing
Run basic security scans to find obvious issues
10 min
2
Production Survival Kit
Essential operations to keep things running
Step 1
Required
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Deployment Strategy
Ship with a rollback plan - because things WILL break
12 min
Step 2
Required
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Monitoring Logging
Get alerted when things break so you can fix them at 9am, not 2am
10 min
Step 3
Required
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Backup Recovery
Have a way to recover from data loss or catastrophic failures
10 min
Step 4
Required
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Incident Response
Know what to do when things go wrong (they will)
10 min
3
Quality Baseline
Minimum testing to catch obvious bugs
After Completing This Path
- � 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