The Boot.dev Beat. April 2026
Last published April 8, 2026
March was a monster month. We shipped the new DevOps learning path (18 DevOps courses!), 2 brand new courses, upgraded the in-browser Python coding experience, and made Boot.dev noticeably better on phones.
Gratefully, Lane
Patch notes
1. New DevOps Learning Path
The new DevOps course path is now live! It will take you from beginner-to-master from foundational coding and CLI concepts all the way up to production-ready cloud infrastructure and deployments. It’s a bit more “dev” than “ops”, but it’s all the practical skills any DevOps, SRE, or platform engineer needs to succeed in the modern cloud.
2. New Learn AWS Course
Our new AWS course is live and focused on the core cloud skills backend and devops engineers need to know about: EC2, VPCs, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, and more. It’s highly interactive, you’ll deploy real infrastructure to your own AWS account, where our bootdev CLI will verify the state of your infrastructure and give you real-time feedback.
3. New Logging and Observability Course
Our new Logging and Observability in Go course is also ready for you to dive in! It covers production-ready logging practices, monitoring, tracing, and alerting, all with a focus on practical skills and real-world tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
4. Greater XP Potion Added
We shipped a Greater Potion (purple) that gives the same 25% XP bonus as the regular potion, but lasts a full 72 hours! These can not be purchased, and are only dropped as a rare reward in chests.
5. Python LSP in Browser
The in-browser Python LSP now has those pesky bugs ironed out and is now fully running in-browser with WASM + ty, including autocomplete and hover docs.
6. New Boot.dev Logo
We rolled out a new logo! If you notice anywhere that we forgot to update the logo, please let us know in the Discord.
7. Mobile UX Overhaul
We shipped major mobile UI improvements across lessons and demo flow, including bigger and easier-to-hit action buttons, better placement of key controls, and bottom-positioned navigation patterns that are much friendlier for one-handed use.
8. Miscellaneous Improvements
- Manual lesson types were removed and replaced with simple MCQ confirmations.
- Realtime Boots was removed after a quiet test confirmed very low usage and minimal demand.
- SQL lessons now support autocomplete with schema-aware suggestions in supported lessons.
- MCQ options can now be answered with number keys for faster keyboard-driven navigation.
What Is Yet to Come
- Web security in TypeScript course
- Data manipulation course in Python, Pandas, and NumPy
- Bash scripting course
- Terraform course
- Redis course
- Better upvoting/search/reuse of challenges in the training grounds
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