Stress-test judgement

Platform Engineering Academy: Architecture scenarios

Work through ambiguous production situations where several answers may appear reasonable.

Scenario 01

Golden Paths: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Golden Paths. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 02

Developer Portal: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Developer Portal. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 03

Internal Developer Platform: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Internal Developer Platform. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 04

Backstage: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Backstage. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 05

GitOps: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving GitOps. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 06

Argo CD: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Argo CD. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 07

Flux CD: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Flux CD. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.