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Goal

Learn a new language, which you have been putting off for sometime.

Process

  1. Form a team with similar interests as you in learning the new "thing" (1-4 people)
  2. Work on a Distributed Web Scraper (MVP Spec will be shared, but be creative on top of it) as a team on a full-stack of your choosing, Infra->Config-management->DB(s)->Backend->Inter service middleware(?)->Frontend.
  3. Be creative.
  4. Compete with other teams, on multiple aspects
    • Performance (same test bed)
    • Security
    • Monitoring
    • Ease and speed of deployment
    • User Interface
    • Reporting and analytics
    • Frugality of infrastructure
    • Load
    • Stress
    • Cross region scaling
  5. Present your approach

Language suggestions

  • Clojure
  • Scala
  • Kotlin
  • Rust
  • Elixir
  • Whatever you want.
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