ShipReal - From Vibe Coder to Real Engineer

Everything between "it runs" and "it works in production".

You can build an app with AI in a weekend. Then real users show up, and running code turns out to be nowhere near working software. This course covers what happens in between: how state actually behaves, why your schema decisions matter, what breaks at your first traffic spike, how deploys go wrong, and the security holes AI-generated code ships with.

38 modules from first principles to production, each built around decisions instead of theory: real postmortems from companies that learned the hard way, assignments you build yourself, and the defaults a principal engineer would pick. You trace a request through DNS, TLS, and load balancers so outages stop being mysteries.

What you will learn

• Take an AI-generated or prototype codebase and harden it into a production-ready application
• Configure the core infrastructure every real product needs: DNS, SSL/TLS, load balancing, CDN, and caching
• Read the SQL your ORM writes, and migrate a live schema without losing data
• Know when a cache is saving you and when it is quietly lying
• Build automated CI/CD pipelines that test, build, and deploy your code safely on every commit
• Set up queues that survive restarts, payments that pass compliance, and AI features with real cost and latency budgets
• Debugging as a discipline, observability, and shipping mobile through app store review

Who it is for

• Vibe coders and AI-assisted developers who can generate working code but freeze when it is time to deploy it
• Self-taught developers and bootcamp graduates who have never touched DNS, SSL, CI/CD, or production infrastructure
• Indie hackers and solo founders who need to ship and run their own product
• Junior developers closing the gap between "it works on my machine" and "it runs reliably in production"
• Experienced engineers who want a structured recap of the full production stack

Requirements

You have built something with code before, even if AI wrote most of it. Basic familiarity with the command line. No DevOps, cloud, or infrastructure experience required.