Feature Flags
If you like applying Feature Flags, every challenge here gives you a chance to practice it on a real industry brief.
- DesignIntermediateNew
Build Hybrid Keyword-Plus-Embeddings Search for a Legal Document Portal
Using the product context brief (legal_portal_brief), design a hybrid retrieval system that combines BM25 keyword scoring with dense embeddings and fuses the two ranked lists wi…
- Information Retrieval
- Bm25
- Vector Search
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Modernization of a Healthcare Reporting Service
Audit the report categories (around 14) and pick operating-theater utilization for the pilot extraction (high volume, moderate complexity, low regulatory blast-radius). Design t…
- Strangler Fig
- Legacy Systems
- Feature Flags
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Refactor a God-Object Order Service with Strategy + Command
Read OrderService and the last 18 months of bug tickets touching it. Author a 5-page design document showing the current class diagram, the target Strategy-per-order-type + Comm…
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
- Strategy Pattern
Software Design and Design Patterns - CodeIntermediateNew
Strangler-Fig Migration of a Monolithic Order Service
Stand up an HTTP facade in front of the monolith (Nginx or a small Go proxy) that routes by URL pattern. Slice 1: extract the order-status read endpoint, dual-write nothing, rou…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Refactoring
- Legacy Modernization
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Multi-Tenant Schema Migration for a Series-B HR SaaS
Design a 4-phase migration: (1) add new columns + tables, dual-write on every workflow mutation, (2) backfill 3.4 TB in chunks of around 50k rows per minute with throttling and …
- Multi Tenant Architecture
- Schema Migration
- Dual Write
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