Live webinarProduction EngineeringOn-CallDeployment

The production engineering playbook nobody taught you

Tutorials stop where production engineering starts. Here is what nobody put in the course.

Param Harrison

Param Harrison

Cofounder, AEOsome.com · Chief Mentor, learnwithparam.com

60 minutes · beginner
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Why this one matters

Tutorials get you to a working prototype. Nothing in them prepares you for the first on-call page, the first rollback, the first timeout cascade. This session walks the production engineering playbook: the habits senior engineers run on autopilot, the signals they watch, the mistakes they stopped making years ago. Practical, specific, and aimed at the engineer about to ship something real for the first time.

Who should watch

  • Beginners shipping their first production service
  • Engineers going on-call for the first time and not sure what to watch
  • Juniors about to own a user-facing feature end to end

What's on the menu

  • The habits senior engineers run on autopilot that you can copy
  • Signals worth watching, and the noise that wastes your pager
  • How to deploy without waking anyone up
  • Rollbacks, feature flags, and the calm they buy you
  • Mistakes senior engineers stopped making years ago

Leave with a blueprint

  • Ship code with the habits senior engineers run without thinking
  • Tell real production signals apart from dashboard noise
  • Deploy in a way that leaves rollback as a one-line operation
  • Use feature flags to de-risk the next launch
  • Avoid the classic junior mistakes that page the whole team at midnight