Production & Incident Response · Intermediate INTERACTIVE

When Things Break: Crashes, Traffic Spikes & Leaked Keys

Real apps break: a deploy crashes the site, 1,000 people arrive at once, an API key ends up on GitHub. Learn the calm, professional playbook — triage, read the logs, roll back, fix the root cause, handle traffic spikes, respond to a leaked secret in minutes, and write a blameless post-mortem so it never happens again.

5

units

12

lessons

29

challenges

~35

minutes

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Outcomes

What you'll be able to do

Triage an incident: severity, communication and first steps

Read logs and error messages to find the real cause

Recover from a crash: roll back, fix forward, verify

Keep an app alive under 1,000+ requests: caching, queues, rate limits, scaling

Respond to an exposed API key: revoke, rotate, audit, prevent

Write a blameless post-mortem and set up monitoring and backups

How it works

Learn by doing, a few minutes a day

Every lesson mixes short explanations with hands-on challenges. Get instant feedback, fix mistakes on the spot, and build a daily habit that actually sticks.

Concept cards

Short, clear explanations with real examples

28 in this course

Multiple choice

Pick the right answer, get instant feedback

12 in this course

Fill the blank

Complete formulas, commands and shortcuts

6 in this course

Build it

Arrange tiles into the right sequence

4 in this course

Match pairs

Connect shortcuts, terms and meanings

7 in this course

Daily streaks

Keep the flame alive by learning every day

XP & daily goals

Pick a goal from 10 to 50 XP a day

Hearts

Five per lesson; missed questions come back

Leaderboard

Climb the weekly rankings

Syllabus

Everything you'll encounter

1

What is an incident?

Detect, triage, communicate — then fix.

3 challenges
2

Reading logs and errors

The error message usually tells you where to look.

3 challenges
1

The first 15 minutes of a crash

Is it everyone? What changed? Roll back.

2 challenges
2

Common crash causes and fixes

Most crashes come from the same few things.

3 challenges
3

When a mobile app crashes

Crash reports, hotfixes and staged rollouts.

3 challenges
1

What happens under heavy traffic

Find the bottleneck before it finds you.

2 challenges
2

Handling 1,000+ requests

Cache, queue, index, limit, scale.

3 challenges
3

Real traffic or an attack?

Rate limits, WAFs and DDoS basics.

2 challenges
1

Your API key leaked: the first hour

Revoke, rotate, check the damage.

3 challenges
2

Never leak a secret again

.env, .gitignore, scanning and least privilege.

2 challenges
1

The blameless post-mortem

Fix the system, not the person.

1 challenges
2

Monitoring, backups and prevention

Find out before your users do.

2 challenges

Finish the course, earn a verifiable certificate

Complete every lesson to receive a Learnix certificate with a unique number anyone can verify online.

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