Platform & Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineer
If you like the kind of work a Site Reliability Engineer does, every challenge here gives you a chance to do that work on a real industry brief.
Skills you'll need
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Build an I/O Benchmarking Harness for an Edge Storage Appliance
Receive the appliance specs (4x 7.68TB Gen4 NVMe, ZFS, Linux kernel 5.15), the 3 target workload profiles (4KB random read at QD32, 1MB sequential write at QD8, mixed 70/30 read…
- Io Benchmarking
- Fio
- System Calls
Computer Systems and Organization - CodeAdvancedNew
Canary Deployments via Mesh Traffic Splitting for a Streaming Platform
Set up Flagger with Istio as the traffic provider. Define a canary policy for the playback-API service: 5 percent → 25 percent → 50 percent → 100 percent with 5-minute bake at e…
- Istio
- Flagger
- Canary Deployment
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking - CodeIntermediateNew
Observability Injection: Distributed Tracing via Sidecars
Enable Envoy tracing with the OpenTelemetry tracer in Istio MeshConfig. Configure a Tempo backend with a Grafana frontend. Verify W3C tracecontext propagation across all 26 serv…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Envoy
Service Mesh and Microservices Networking - CodeExpertNew
Profile and Tame a P99-Latency Tail for an Ad-Auction Service
Receive the bidder source (Go, around 22,000 lines), production traces (eBPF + flame graphs from 30 minutes of peak traffic), and the host config (NUMA-2 socket, 96 cores, 384GB…
- Performance Optimization
- Ebpf
- Go
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Every challenge is shaped from real industry context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Progressive Delivery with Flagger for an E-Commerce Backend
Install Flagger (or Argo Rollouts) into the existing Kubernetes + Istio stack. Configure canary analysis using Prometheus metrics: request-success-rate, request-duration p99, an…
- Flagger
- Argo Rollouts
- Canary Deployment
GitOps and Continuous Delivery - CodeAdvancedNew
Roll Out OpenTelemetry Tracing Across a Microservices Fintech
Receive an anonymized service map (90 services, payment-critical path of 12), a runtime mix (Node.js, Go, Java), and existing logging/metrics setup. Define: an OTel SDK adoption…
- Distributed Tracing
- Opentelemetry
- Sampling Strategies
Software Observability - CodeAdvancedNew
Instrument Network Telemetry for an ISP's Backbone
Receive the backbone topology (12 routers across 4 PoPs, mix of Cisco IOS XR + Juniper Junos), the current SNMP-based monitoring stack, and 4 weeks of customer-complaint tickets…
- Network Telemetry
- Gnmi
- Kafka
Advanced Computer Networks
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
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