Technical

The Locked Office

A free, 25-minute taster. Finish a live incident investigation to crack two locks — learning to read REST APIs, trace failures through an architecture, and review a system design.

25
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Course overview

About this course

You’re covering for an on-call engineer who’s off sick, there’s a live incident open — customers can’t view their account details — and the investigation was never finished. Everything you need is on the desk: an architecture diagram, the API docs, the logs, and a half-completed worksheet. Two locks stand between you and the open incident.

A free, bite-sized taster of SkillEmber. Learn to read a REST API, trace a failing request through an architecture, and review a system design — then finish the investigation to crack the codes. Everything that makes the full courses satisfying, in under half an hour.

What you'll learn

Practical outcomes

  • How to read a REST API: methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE), endpoints, and status codes.
  • How to read an architecture diagram and trace a request through its components.
  • How to investigate an incident — find the failing operation and trace it to the component that owns it.
  • How to review a system design against real architectural principles.

Pre-requisites

What you should know first

  • None at all. This is a taster for first-time visitors — every skill is taught from scratch, no technical background needed.

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Work through interactive exercises, unlock the next steps as you progress, and earn a certificate on completion.

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