Blast Radius Lab

The product is a hands-on, AI-mentored lab that takes a bare trading platform from local development to production-ready on AWS across six phases, addressing the gap between tutorial-based learning and handling real production incidents. It is for individual developers and learners pursuing site reliability engineering skills who want practice with operational tooling. Compared to traditional video and copy-paste tutorials with toy infrastructure, it requires building from zero on real AWS and Terraform with an AI mentor that quizzes and pushes back and injected failures for triage.

Key features

• Multi-stage Docker builds with health checks
• Docker Compose networking
• CI pipeline with GitHub Actions
• Image scanning with Trivy
• OpenTelemetry instrumentation
• Prometheus metrics collection
• Grafana dashboards
• Tempo tracing
• Loki logging
• SLI/SLO and error budgets
• Burn-rate alerting with Alertmanager
• Chaos engineering fault injection
• Incident response runbooks
• Terraform infrastructure provisioning
• ECS Fargate deployments
• OIDC federation authentication
• Rolling deploys with health gates