Ci Cd

If you like applying Ci Cd, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.

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DesignIntermediateNew
Design Schema Evolution for a Multi-Tenant Event Platform
Design a schema-evolution model covering: schema-registry topology (per-tenant subjects vs shared), compatibility modes per topic class (strict vs forward-only vs none), tenant-…
- Schema Evolution
- Kafka
- Schema Registry
Event-Driven Architecture
DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Playwright Checkout Test Suite That Blocks Bad Merges
Using the checkout incident export, identify the single most valuable happy path plus the six edge cases tied to the most frequent and most severe past incidents (for example fa…
- End To End Testing
- Playwright
- Ci Cd
Open coursework
CodeBeginnerNew
CI/CD Pipeline for a SaaS Monorepo with 14 Services
Set up Nx (or Turborepo) for affected-graph computation. Configure remote build cache (S3-backed) so cached steps skip across runs and developers. Parallelize jobs in GitHub Act…
- Ci Cd
- Monorepo
- Nx
Open coursework
CodeBeginnerNew
Add a Test Harness to an Untested Open-Source CLI
Fork the repo (test mirror provided), set up Vitest with coverage and a CI workflow that fails under 75 percent on the targeted modules. Write characterization tests first (asse…
- Unit Testing
- Integration Testing
- Test Coverage
Software Construction
Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
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CodeIntermediateNew
Kill Surviving Mutants in a Travel Pricing Service
Work entirely from the provided pricing module (pricing-module) and its existing test suite (existing-tests), using the scenario facts in the briefing document (challenge-brief)…
- Mutation Testing
- Java
- Junit
Open coursework
CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Production CI/CD Pipeline for a Fitness-Studio CRM Startup
Using the FlexDesk starter service and Dockerfile, the current-deploy case file, and the pipeline requirements spec provided, build a complete continuous integration and continu…
- Ci Cd
- Github Actions
- Container Signing
Open coursework
CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Secure-Coding Linter Ruleset for a Backend Team
Using the findings log, study the twelve documented security-review findings and confirm the three repeat patterns. Then build a custom linter ruleset — choose Semgrep or custom…
- Secure Coding
- Static Analysis
- Semgrep
Open coursework
StrategyIntermediateNew
Stand Up Contract Testing for a Logistics Microservices Backend
Using only the materials provided, choose and justify the six producer-consumer service pairs to migrate first. Read the 90-day staging breakage log to rank pairs by how much pa…
- Contract Testing
- Pact
- Microservices
Open coursework
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Product Manager
Ship product that solves real user problems. Combine user research, prototyping, and stakeholder alignment to turn ambiguous briefs into measurable wins — the role at the centre of modern software teams.
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AnalysisIntermediateNew
Continuous Delivery Maturity Audit for a Fintech Backend
Collect 8 weeks of deployment data (lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change-failure rate, mean time to restore) per team using their GitHub Actions + Jira + PagerDut…
- Continuous Delivery
- Dora Metrics
- Ci Cd
Agile Methods and Practices
CodeIntermediateNew
Fuzz a Memory-Unsafe Image-Parsing Library
Identify 3 critical parser entry points (DICOM dataset parser, JPEG 2000 decoder, TIFF directory parser) and write a libFuzzer harness + an AFL++ harness for each. Build with AS…
- Fuzzing
- Memory Safety
- Address Sanitizer
Open coursework
CodeBeginnerNew
Build and Ship a Bug-Tracker MVP with Full CI/CD
Week 1: write a 1-page SRS + Figma wireframes for 5 screens (login, bug list, bug detail, file bug, dashboard). Week 2-3: implement with Next.js + Supabase + Tailwind, with unit…
- Full Stack Development
- Requirements Engineering
- Ci Cd
Software Engineering Foundations
StrategyBeginnerNew
Set Up Trunk-Based Development on a 3-Branch Workflow
Audit the current branch + merge data over 8 weeks (frequency, conflict count, time-to-green). Pick one product team for a 4-week pilot: introduce a feature-flag system (Unleash…
- Version Control
- Trunk Based Development
- Feature Flags
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Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
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Accept the one that fits your goals.
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Submit for structured evaluation.
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