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Interactive Case Studies

Step into real CTO scenarios. Make decisions, see how others chose, and discover what actually happened.

advanced~15 minPro

The Outage

Meridian (fictional Series C B2B SaaS)

It's 2:14 PM on a Tuesday. Error rates just spiked from 0.2% to 34%. Three enterprise customers are on the phone with your CEO. You have 60 seconds before someone expects an answer.

beginner~15 min

The Monolith Decision

FinScale (fictional Series B fintech)

You're the incoming CTO of FinScale, a Series B fintech processing $2M in daily transactions. The monolith is cracking under 10x growth pressure. You have a weekend to choose a strategy.

intermediate~20 minPro

Scaling the Team

Veloxa (fictional Series A SaaS startup)

Veloxa just closed a $15M Series A. The lead investor's condition: triple the engineering team from 8 to 24 in six months. Navigate the hiring pace, org structure, and management layer decisions that will define your culture.

intermediate~15 minPro

Migrating a Monolith: A CTO's Decision Journey

TechScale Inc. (fictional)

You're the new CTO of a mid-stage startup with a 500K-line monolith. Revenue is growing 3x YoY, but deployments take 4 hours and the on-call team is burning out. It's time to make some hard decisions.

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