For Backend Teams

You Build It,
You Run It

Your backend engineers own their services in production—but most have never debugged a real outage. Incident Drill prepares developers for on-call before the pager goes off.

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Developers on-call shouldn't mean chaos.

You've adopted "you build it, you run it" but your backend engineers freeze when paged at 2am. They know their code but not production debugging. Every incident becomes an escalation to your overworked SRE team.

THE SOLUTION

Turn developers into confident responders.

Incident Drill gives backend engineers safe practice with production incidents. They learn to investigate issues in their services, use observability tools, and resolve problems without escalating.

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Service-Level Debugging

Focus on application issues: memory leaks, connection pool exhaustion, deadlocks, slow queries. The problems developers actually cause and fix.

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APM & Tracing Basics

Practice using Datadog, New Relic, or Jaeger. Engineers learn to trace requests through their services and identify bottlenecks.

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Database Troubleshooting

Slow queries, connection limits, replication lag. Backend devs learn to diagnose the database issues their code creates.

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Alert Response Training

Practice responding to common alerts: high error rates, latency spikes, memory warnings. Build muscle memory for triage.

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Escalation Judgment

Learn when to fix it yourself vs. when to escalate. Reduce unnecessary pages to SRE while catching real emergencies.

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Incident Communication

Practice writing status updates and postmortems. Communication skills are as important as debugging skills.

WHY ENGINEERING TEAMS INVEST

Fewer escalations, happier teams.

✓ Backend engineers handle their own service incidents confidently
✓ Reduce escalations to SRE by 40%+ for application issues
✓ Developers understand production impact of their code choices
✓ On-call rotations become sustainable, not dreaded
✓ Build a culture of production ownership
✓ New hires get on-call ready in their first month

Incident Response Flow

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Alert Fires

High latency on /api/checkout

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Investigate

Check traces, find slow DB query

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Apply Fix

Add missing index, deploy

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Resolved

No escalation needed

How It Works

Identify Training Needs

Assess your team's production debugging skills. Most backend engineers have gaps in observability and incident response.

Run Training Sessions

Engineers practice with scenarios matching your services—APIs, databases, queues, caches. Real problems, safe environment.

Build Confidence

Repeated practice builds muscle memory. Engineers stop fearing on-call and start owning their services.

Join the Rotation

Trained engineers join on-call rotation. They handle application issues independently, escalating only when needed.

Make on-call sustainable.

Prepare your backend engineers to own their services in production. No more 2am panic calls.