05 · Weeks 10-11

Production scale: choose your capstone

The last technical stretch of the program is where you pick a direction, an AI powered code review bot that lives inside GitHub's own workflow, or a real time incident and status page system built for reliability, and either one forces you to think in systems, not screens.

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By the end you can

  • Verify a GitHub webhook with an HMAC signature so only GitHub can trigger your automation
  • Orchestrate a static analysis plus AI review pipeline that comments directly on a pull request
  • Or, build a concurrent monitoring worker and push real time status updates over WebSocket or SSE
  • Export metrics in a standard, tool readable format such as Prometheus
  • Publish the finished capstone: a public GitHub repo, a LinkedIn post, and a mention on at least one other platform

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