Computer & Information Sciences
Information Technology Challenges
Real IT projects on Ewance — plan, secure, and operate the infrastructure and services a modern organisation runs on. Solve them to build a portfolio of verified, recruiter-checkable proof you can do the work — not just describe it.
Recommended challenges
- CodeBeginnerNew
Containerize a Legacy Java Monolith and Deploy to ECS
Receive the Java 8 monolith source (around 320k lines), the current Tomcat + Apache HTTPD config, and 30 days of production traffic logs. Containerize the application (multi-sta…
- Containerization
- Docker
- AWS Or Azure
Cloud Computing - DesignSeniorNew
Multi-Region Active-Active Architecture for a Gaming Backend
Read the current architecture (single-region: ECS + RDS Aurora + Redis + S3) and traffic mix (around 60 percent APAC, 25 percent NA, 15 percent EU). Design a 3-region active-act…
- Multi Region Architecture
- AWS Or Azure
- Terraform
Cloud Computing - StrategyBeginnerNew
Toil Audit + Automation Sprint for a Platform Team
Week 1-2: every team member logs every toil instance for 10 working days (timestamp, category, duration). Categorize using the Google SRE toil taxonomy (manual, repetitive, auto…
- Toil Reduction
- Automation
- Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering - DesignIntermediateNew
Drift-Detect + Self-Heal a Multi-Tenant Kubernetes Estate
Enable ArgoCD auto-sync with selfHeal + prune across all 28 clusters. Add Kyverno cluster policies enforcing baseline standards (registry, resource limits, network policy). Buil…
- Argocd
- Kyverno
- Drift Detection
GitOps and Continuous Delivery Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real industry context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- DesignBeginnerNew
Design Secrets Management for a Regulated GitOps Pipeline
Design the secrets topology: Vault as the single source, External Secrets Operator (ESO) syncing into Kubernetes Secrets with auto-rotation. SecretStore + ClusterSecretStore bou…
- External Secrets Operator
- Hashicorp Vault
- Secrets Management
GitOps and Continuous Delivery - PresentationIntermediateNew
Run a Platform-as-Product Quarterly Review for a 40-Squad Org
Define the platform's 8 products (CI service, golden-path templates, observability stack, secret management, namespace provisioning, on-call tooling, internal portal, paved-road…
- Platform Engineering
- Platform As Product
- Facilitation
Platform Engineering - CodeSeniorNew
Linkerd to Istio Migration for a Multi-Cluster Platform
Phase 1: install Istio alongside Linkerd in PERMISSIVE mode (Istio sidecars injected, Linkerd proxies remain). Phase 2: migrate non-critical namespaces first (4 namespaces) by r…
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Service Mesh
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking
How it works
From brief to credential, in six steps.
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
Submit for structured evaluation.
Step 05
Earn a verified credential.
Step 06
Add it to LinkedIn with one click.
Industry teams behind a decade of practitioner briefs
Hiring from this pool?
Sponsor a challenge and meet candidates through actual work.
Industry teams can shape briefs around the skills they hire for, then evaluate students on rubric-scored deliverables — not resumes.