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Build Your Own Redis

October 17, 2023 · One min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

Building your own Redis server is a great way to level up as a Software Engineer.

It teaches you about:

Rust Coding Challenges

October 8, 2023 · 2 min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

I'm often asked to recommend some Coding Challenges for developers who are learning Rust.

The obvious answer is ALL of them! After all I started writing and sharing these coding challenges as I was using them to learn Rust.

But to try and provider a more curated answer the question, here are the eight great coding challenges you can use to learn Rust:

Easy Coding Challenges

September 26, 2023 · One min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

I'm often asked to recommend some easy Coding Challenges for junior developers.

It's not easy to suggest easy coding challenges as what is easy for a backend developer might be a challenge for a frontend developer. The same applies for an systems developer versus a data scientist or data engineer.

But to try and answer the question, here are the five coding challenges that I think are easiest for anyone to get into, no matter what their background is:

13 ways to learn Kafka

September 22, 2023 · One min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

13 ways to learn Kafka:

10 ways to learn Kubernetes

September 11, 2023 · One min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

10 ways to learn Kubernetes:

15 Ways to Learn Software Architecture

September 7, 2023 · One min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

15 ways to learn Software Architecture.

Client/Server Network Programming

September 1, 2023 · 4 min read

John Crickett

Code Challenge Writer

Client/Server Communications

Most of the time for network programming we’re going to build client/server applications. This blog posts provides a quick overview of how we do that.