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Interactive Scenarios
Every incident is a choice made weeks ago. Play through these real-world architectural failures and see if you can avoid the inevitable.
Token Goblin: Context Budget Trial
An AI context-budget game where players build the smallest useful context window.
Scope Creep: Just One Small Change
A roadmap defense puzzle about requirement drift, tradeoffs, prioritization, and delivery reality.
The DBA / Query Czar: Index Court
A query judgment puzzle about indexes, execution plans, latency, and production safety.
The PM: Alignment Is a Debt Instrument
A stakeholder alignment puzzle about prioritization, tradeoffs, roadmap pressure, and delivery trust.
Mono: The Legacy Corridor
A dependency maze about seams, hidden coupling, legacy systems, and modernization risk.
Junior Developer: Deploy Gauntlet
A release-readiness game about tests, migrations, feature flags, rollback plans, and communication.
Incident Command: Ten Seconds to Triage
A rapid triage microgame where players choose the least damaging response to a production incident.
Glitch: Symptom or Cause?
A root-cause sorting game where players separate symptoms, triggers, causes, and distractions.
Fetch: Retrieval Is Not Understanding
A retrieval puzzle where players choose evidence, reject misleading context, and assemble a grounded answer.
Elder: Source of Truth Trial
A truth reconstruction game comparing roadmap claims, incident logs, code history, and system behavior.
Cloud Bill: Every Request Has a Receipt
A budget-pressure game where reliability, scaling, traffic, and cloud cost compete.
The Chaos Stack Daily Challenge
A daily one-minute systems riddle with one scenario, three choices, and one dry explanation.
Cache Guy: Fast, Maybe True
A freshness puzzle about cache invalidation, TTLs, latency, and stale context.
Architecture Review Card Sprint
A card-based architecture tradeoff game where constraints, costs, resilience, and delivery speed collide.
Agent A: Autonomy With Guardrails
An agent workflow control game about tool permissions, guardrails, traces, and safe autonomy.
Interactive Scenarios on TinyCTO.tv turn predictable disasters into playable choices. Play through real-world architectural failures and see if you can avoid the inevitable.