Next Thursday (26th April) and Friday (27th April) we are running a Full Stack Hackathon in London. The goal of the Hackathon is to give you, the developer a chance to work with three of the most compelling technologies for building modern Applications, specifically Node.js, Apacha Kafka and MongoDB.
Why these three technologies? Well, they are all at the forefront of the revolution in MicroServices and scalable web architectures, they are all Open Source and they all put the JSON data format front and centre of their design.
At 7.00pm on Thursday we will all get together at 15 Hatfields in London to start building teams.
Each team can have a minimum of two and a maximum of 5 team members. If you want to build a team and you have an idea, this is the time to pitch your ideas. Focus on the idea of a Minimum Viable Product.
Remember you only have Friday to build your app. There will be plenty of pizza beer and soft-drinks on hand to ensure no one goes hungry or thirsty. Everyone who turns up will get swag bag of goodies from all the vendors including tee-shirts, pens, stickers etc. etc.
On Friday we start bright and early. The team will be there from 8.00an but we expect people to arrive at 9.00am. We will provide breakfast rolls, tea and coffee and we will refresh the pitches from last night. This is when we finalise the teams for the day.
After that its full speed hacking until 4.30pm. There will be a break for lunch which we will provide and there will be snacks and soft-drinks available throughout the day.
There will be experts on hand from Nearform, MongoDB and Confluent to help you with your hacking challenge.
At 4.30pm, each team will pitch and demo their projects. Each team gets 5 minutes. Then myself, Tim Berglund and Conor O’Neill will decide on a winner. Each member of the winning team will receive an Amazon Echo Dot.
What will the winning team look like? They will have used all the technologies in a compelling way to build a minimum viable product that blows our socks off.
Once prize giving is done we will retire to a local pub to celebrate the day with craft beer. We are buying!
All this for the low low fee of £10. Register now, spaces are limited. We can’t wait to see you on the day.
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