Developer Experience
If you like applying Developer Experience, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Stand Up a Backstage Developer Portal for a Frankfurt Fintech
Using the provided service inventory, ownership map, and rollout brief, build and deploy a Backstage portal on the company's existing Kubernetes platform and populate its catalo…
- Backstage
- Platform Engineering
- Service Catalog
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design and Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review
Using the platform product catalog (platform-product-catalog) and the Head of Platform's mandate (head-of-platform-brief), design a complete, repeatable quarterly review for the…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Design an Idiomatic REST + Webhooks API for a Logistics SaaS
Read the team's draft + the public APIs of 3 reference logistics platforms (anonymized, briefing pack provided). Author a 5-page API design guideline covering URL structure (nou…
- API Design
- REST
- Openapi
Software Design and Design Patterns - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Namespace-Provisioning Self-Service
Design and build a Backstage scaffolder that lets a squad request a namespace (specifying environment, owners, expected scale). The scaffolder generates a pull request to a GitO…
- Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes
- Self Service
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Step 01
Browse challenges aligned to your studies.
Step 02
Accept the one that fits your goals.
Step 03
Work through it with AI Copilot guidance.
Step 04
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