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Telemetry demo
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 2 weekends
Observability + SLO Stack
Instrument a service with logs, metrics, traces, dashboards and an error-budget policy.
ObservabilitySLOsMetricsTracingIncident response
DEFINITION OF DONE
Leave artifacts a reviewer can inspect.
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SLO definition
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
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Dashboard
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
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Alert rules
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
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Incident runbook
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Implemented full-stack observability with service-level objectives, actionable alerts and incident-response documentation.
Use this as a starting structure, then replace it with your real implementation details, metrics and constraints. Do not claim outcomes you did not measure.
STRETCH GOALS
Go deeper if the core is already solid.
Synthetic checks
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
Burn-rate alerts
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
On-call simulation
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.