Bot Farm Infrastructure
Operate secure containers, worker pools, Kubernetes, authorized routing, telemetry, and recovery.
Containerized Automation
Package workers as minimal, reproducible, non-root images with explicit runtime limits.
01Understand OCI image anatomy75 min →02Build minimal multi-stage images80 min →03Model local systems with Compose80 min →04Restrict container authority80 min →05Publish verifiable images80 min →Lab: Secure Four-Service Stack — Containerize an API, worker, Redis, and academy test target with reproducible builds, health checks, and restricted privileges.
Redis Queues and Worker Pools
Operate durable job pipelines with idempotent workers, fairness, retries, and backpressure.
01Choose Redis primitives deliberately75 min →02Model the job lifecycle75 min →03Design for at-least-once delivery80 min →04Tune worker concurrency75 min →05Enforce backpressure and fairness80 min →Lab: Resumable Distributed Worker Pool — Build a BullMQ worker pool that survives process termination, enforces tenant fairness, and exposes queue health.
Kubernetes Orchestration
Deploy and scale worker systems with health-aware rollouts and restricted workload identity.
01Compose Kubernetes primitives80 min →02Deliver configuration and secrets80 min →03Scale from meaningful signals80 min →04Survive planned disruption80 min →05Roll out and roll back safely80 min →Lab: Autoscaled Worker Cluster — Deploy the worker system to a local Kubernetes cluster with readiness, queue-based autoscaling, disruption protection, and rollback evidence.
Telemetry and Incident Response
Turn logs, metrics, and traces into actionable service objectives and recovery evidence.
01Emit structured, safe logs75 min →02Connect distributed traces75 min →03Measure queues and workers75 min →04Define SLOs and alerts80 min →05Run evidence-based incidents80 min →Lab: Diagnose the Degraded Farm — Instrument a deliberately degraded worker farm, trigger alerts, identify the real bottleneck, and prove recovery.
Enterprise Farm Operator Capstone
Design, deploy, load-test, recover, and cost-control a complete authorized automation platform.
01Write the system design90 min →02Provision secure foundations90 min →03Coordinate regions safely90 min →04Validate with load and chaos90 min →05Control cost and prove recovery90 min →Lab: Production Farm Capstone — Deliver a multi-service authorized automation farm that processes supplied workloads under load, survives injected faults, and produces auditable evidence.
Regional Farm Control Plane
Operate a multi-tenant worker control plane with fair scheduling, signed leases, Kubernetes isolation, authorized route pools, telemetry, autoscaling, failover, and cost controls.
10 production starter files · 5 failure drills · automated 100-point rubric
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