software
Intended for: software engineering teams building production systems.
Extends: managed
The "serious software team" tier. Adds architecture, API, database, infrastructure, security, observability, and performance skills on top of managed.
Highlights
- Architecture:
software-architecture,system-design,domain-driven-design,event-driven-architecture,concurrency-patterns - API:
api-design,graphql-patterns,grpc-protobuf,webhook-integration - Database:
database-modeling,database-migration,sql-patterns,sql-style-guide,nosql-patterns,caching-strategies - Infrastructure:
ci-cd-setup,container-orchestration,dockerfile-review,kubernetes-basics,terraform-basics,linux-administration,dns-networking,shell-scripting - Security:
auth-patterns,secret-management,secure-coding,threat-modeling,dependency-audit - Observability:
logging-strategy,metrics-monitoring,alerting-oncall,distributed-tracing - Performance:
performance-profiling,load-testing
When to upgrade
Only if you also need design, mobile, frontend framework skills → product.