9 Code Developer University

This chapter covers

  • AWS Glue and Amazon Athena
  • Using EventBridge to connect system components
  • Using Kinesis Firehose and Lambda for at-scale data processing

One idea that we’ve been mulling for a while has been a web app designed to help developers learn programming skills in a fun way with gamification and useful analytics. Our idea, let’s call it Code Developer University (CDU), evolved into a proof-of-concept website with a collection of interesting programming challenges for budding developers to solve and to build skills.

Each challenge would pose a problem. The student would have space to type in their solution and then submit it to our system for processing. The system would run the solution through a battery ...

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