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- CodeFoundationalNew
Swap a List Scan for a Min-Heap in the Dispatcher
Working only from the materials provided, your job is to make the courier-selection logic faster and to show, with evidence, that it actually got faster. First, read the de-iden…
- Heap Data Structure
- Complexity Analysis
- Python
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Model Bogotá's Bike-Share Network as a Graph for Overnight Rebalancing
Using only the supplied station directory, the aggregated origin-to-destination trip table, and the operations brief, build a directed weighted graph where each station is a nod…
- Graphs
- Networkx
- Shortest Path
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Queue for an Event Bus
Implement an MPSC (multi-producer single-consumer) ring-buffer queue in Go using atomic operations only — no mutexes. Prove correctness with the Go race detector across 8 produc…
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Lock Free Programming
- Go
Data Structures - DesignBeginnerNew
Redesign an Executive Revenue Dashboard for an E-Commerce Marketplace
Interview the CFO, the head of category, and 2 finance analysts for 30 minutes each to elicit the 6 analytic tasks the dashboard must support (e.g. month-over-month variance, ca…
- Dashboard Design
- Visual Encoding
- Task Analysis
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- DesignFoundationalNew
Redesign a Vet-Clinic SaaS Database to Third Normal Form
Using the current schema dump and the eight most-common reporting queries provided to you, design a replacement database structure for VetLedger. First, produce an entity-relati…
- Data Modeling
- Normalization
- SQL
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Resolve the Quota Double-Spend: Design Meterly's Order-Provisioning Schema
Working only from the materials provided, reach and defend a database design. Read the de-identified incident record (incident-file) and the business-rules brief (requirements-b…
- Transactions
- Acid
- Isolation Levels
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Build and Evaluate an LSM-Tree Storage Engine in Rust
Your analysis task is to complete the engine and produce an evidence-backed comparison of the two compaction strategies. Start from the 'starter-engine' Rust module and finish t…
- Lsm Tree
- Storage Engine
- Rust
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Compare NewSQL Architectures for a Real-Time Inventory Platform
Working only from the materials provided — the de-identified evaluation file (case_file_inventory_eval), the contentious-transactions specification (transactions_spec), and the …
- Newsql
- Distributed Databases
- Raft
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Tune Database Consistency for a Ride-Hailing Match Engine
Working only from the materials provided, analyse why the matching glitch appears under load and argue for a consistency policy per query class. Start from the cluster topology …
- Consistency Models
- Cassandra
- Distributed Tracing
Open coursework - DesignIntermediateNew
Migrate a 6TB Social-Commerce Database to a Sharded Topology
Using the supplied schema specification and the seven-day anonymized query-workload export, decide the correct shard key for each table and justify it from observed access patte…
- Database Sharding
- Postgresql
- Vitess
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Author a Ubiquitous-Language Glossary for a Telco Billing Domain
Conduct 12 structured interviews (30 min each) with stakeholders across CRM, billing, AR, customer portal, and finance. Capture each team's terminology for the top 25 domain con…
- Ubiquitous Language
- Context Mapping
- Stakeholder Interviews
Domain-Driven Design - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Resilient Bridge Between New Commerce and Legacy SAP
Using the integration requirements case file, design how all five interactions move between the storefront and SAP ECC: order create, pricing inquiry, inventory availability, cr…
- Enterprise Integration
- SAP Integration
- Apache Camel
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Decompose a CRM Monolith into Bounded Services
Analyze the monolith using NDepend or similar (provided). Identify the top 4-6 candidate service boundaries based on coupling + business-capability seams (likely: Quotation, Pol…
- Strangler Fig Pattern
- Service Decomposition
- Csharp Programming
Enterprise and Business Software Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Replace Nightly Batch Loads with Near-Real-Time Reporting at a Pump Manufacturer
Using the system inventory in the provided case-file, classify all nine source systems by the most appropriate way to capture their changes: log-based change data capture where …
- Change Data Capture
- Kafka
- Debezium
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Modernize a Retail SAP Customization Strategy with Sidecar Apps
Work only from the materials provided: the de-identified customization register, the historical upgrade-impact log, and the pricing-approval workflow specification, supported by…
- SAP Btp
- Cap Framework
- Enterprise Architecture
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Design an Event-Sourced Inventory System for a Third-Party Warehouse
Working from the operations case file and the warehouse domain specification, design an event model of twelve to fifteen events that covers the warehouse lifecycle (receive, put…
- Event Sourcing
- Cqrs
- Eventstoredb
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Model a Trading Order Book with Algebraic Data Types in Haskell
Design ADTs for Side (Buy | Sell), OrderType (Limit | Market | StopLimit), Order, Trade, and BookState. Make illegal states unrepresentable (e.g. a Match can never produce a neg…
- Haskell
- Algebraic Data Types
- Property Based Testing
Functional Programming 
DesignBeginnerNewDesign a Canary Deployment Strategy for Corso Nove Checkout
Using the incident postmortem (incident-postmortem), the platform architecture spec (platform-architecture-spec), the per-service reliability targets (slo-targets-brief), and th…
- Flagger
- Argo Rollouts
- Canary Deployment
Open coursework- DesignIntermediateNew
Design Parallel I/O for a Climate-Simulation Data Pipeline
Analyze the current I/O pattern: each MPI rank writes its own file via serial HDF5 (the classic anti-pattern). Design a single shared file using parallel HDF5 + MPI-IO with coll…
- Mpi Io
- Parallel Hdf5
- Lustre Filesystem
High-Performance and Scientific Computing - DesignSeniorNew
Redesign a Microfinance App for Four Cross-Cultural Markets
Using the current-app flow specification, the retention-and-funnel dataset, the field-session readouts, and the Unicode locale-data reference, design a culturally adaptive versi…
- Cross Cultural Design
- User Research
- Contextual Inquiry
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Build a Tiered Vendor-Security Review Program, Validated by a 12-Vendor Pilot
Using the de-identified subprocessor inventory and the twelve-vendor pilot dossier provided, design a three-tier risk program (critical, important, low-risk) with explicit, obse…
- Third Party Risk
- Security Governance
- Compliance
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Run a Go/No-Go Discovery Sprint for a Research Spin-Off
Using the founder brief, recruit 18 backend developers (6 each from fintech, business-to-business software, and developer tools) by screening the candidate pool against the qual…
- Opportunity Identification
- Customer Discovery
- Venture Building
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Ship a Lean Flood-Insurance MVP and Convert Two Nordic Pilots
Working only from the materials provided, frame the build using Build-Measure-Learn from the Lean Startup reference, and name the single riskiest assumption you will test first …
- Lean Startup
- Venture Building
- Mvp Design
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Spin-Out Strategy for a Robotics Lab's Warehouse Picking IP
Map each path: (1) OEM licensing (model royalty terms, time-to-deal, IP protection); (2) founder-led startup (cap table, hiring needs, fundraising path, 18-month milestones); (3…
- Venture Building
- Research To Product
- Strategic Options Analysis
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