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- CodeIntermediateNew
Apply Hexagonal Architecture to a Payments Microservice
Design the settlement domain in pure Kotlin (no Spring imports, no framework annotations). Define ports for: payment-network adapter (one inbound per network — SEPA, Faster Paym…
- Hexagonal Architecture
- Ports And Adapters
- Kotlin Programming
Domain-Driven Design - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Port a Drone Flight Controller from Bare-Metal to FreeRTOS
Take the existing bare-metal firmware (STM32H7, around 14,000 lines C). Identify the tasks (control loop 1 kHz, IMU read 2 kHz, GPS 10 Hz, telemetry 50 Hz, command parsing event…
- Freertos
- Rate Monotonic Scheduling
- C Programming
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Zephyr-Based Sensor Node for Industrial IoT
Set up a Zephyr workspace, configure the device tree for the provided nRF52840 + ADXL355 + custom BLE service. Implement: SPI driver for accelerometer at 4 kHz, on-device 1024-p…
- Zephyr Rtos
- Ble Protocol
- Low Power Design
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- AnalysisSeniorNew
Diagnose a Hard-Real-Time Failure in an Automotive ECU
Receive anonymized AUTOSAR runnable + task traces (CSV + Vector CANalyzer .blf), 8 hours covering 3 failure events. Identify timing budget per task and runnable. Reproduce on th…
- Autosar
- Real Time Debugging
- Can Bus Analysis
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a PlatformIO CI Pipeline for a Multi-Board Firmware Team
Use GitHub Actions + PlatformIO. Build matrix across the 6 boards. Run native unit tests + QEMU-based emulation tests for boards that QEMU supports. Set up a self-hosted runner …
- Platformio
- Github Actions
- Embedded Ci
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Bootloader with Secure OTA for a Medical Wearable
Implement using MCUboot as the secondary-image bootloader. Set up an offline signing pipeline (Ed25519 keys, HSM-backed for production). Implement the OTA client: BLE file trans…
- Mcuboot
- Secure Bootloader
- Firmware Signing
Open coursework - 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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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- 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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit and Govern a Frankfurt Bank's Sprawling API Estate
Working only from the materials provided, examine the API estate and reach a defensible governance judgment. Read the situation record (estate-situation-file) to understand how …
- API Governance
- Openapi Spec
- Dora Compliance
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Build a Saga Orchestrator for Cross-Border Payment Creation
Using the service contract specification and the failure scenario catalog provided, model the payment-creation flow as a saga with six forward steps and six compensations, and i…
- Saga Pattern
- Temporal Workflow
- Compensation Logic
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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Bridge a Healthcare Messaging System from RabbitMQ to Kafka
Working from the provided RabbitMQ topology specification and the 30-day message-volume dataset, map each of the 24 queues to a Kafka topic and choose a sound partition key for …
- Kafka
- Rabbitmq
- Message Broker Migration
Open coursework - 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 - DesignIntermediateNew
Design a Real-Time Fraud-Scoring Stream for a Card Issuer
Produce a design proposal for a fraud-scoring stream that ingests authorization events, maintains a 30-day rolling feature state per customer, applies a pre-trained scoring mode…
- Apache Flink
- Kafka Streams
- Stream Processing
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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Refactor a Node.js Service into Scala with Effect Systems
Take the existing Node.js price-normalization code (provided). Rewrite in Scala 3 using ZIO (or Cats Effect) — model every effect explicitly (IO for side effects, Either or type…
- Scala Programming
- Zio Effects
- Cats Effect
Functional Programming - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Readable Rules Language for Insurance Policies in OCaml
Design a small domain-specific language that covers the building blocks of policy rules: variables (insured amount, premium, deductible, named perils), expressions (arithmetic, …
- Ocaml
- Domain Specific Languages
- Parser Combinators
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Apply Property-Based Testing to a Currency-Conversion Module
Rewrite the conversion module in F#: use units of measure for currency types, immutable value types for amounts, no floating-point arithmetic (Decimal only). Build property test…
- Fsharp
- Property Based Testing
- Fscheck
Functional Programming - CodeBeginnerNew
Convert an Imperative Recommendation Service to Pure Functional Style
Take the Python ranking module (around 900 lines). Identify side-effects (DB reads, cache lookups, logging, time) and lift them to the boundary. Rewrite the ranking core in Scal…
- Scala Programming
- Pure Functions
- Functional Core Imperative Shell
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DesignBeginnerNewMove an EdTech Platform's 4 Clusters to GitOps with ArgoCD
Using only the materials provided — the migration case file (incident_dossier), the service inventory dataset (service_inventory), and the platform team's target-state brief (ta…
- Argocd
- Kubernetes
- Kustomize
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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
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