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An educational side project - The Pragmatic Engineer

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👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. We cover one out of four topics in today’s subscriber-only The Scoop issue. If you’re not yet a full subscriber, you missed this week’s deep-dive on Agoda’s private cloud setup. To get the full issues, twice a week, subscribe here. I’d like to share a story about an educational side project which could prove fruitful for a software engineer who’s seeking a new job. Juraj Majerik is an Amsterdam-based software engineer who decided to improve his applied knowledge of containerization, multiprocessing and observability. So he built a “clone” of a ridesharing app like Uber or Bolt: the app simulates riders requesting trips and drivers picking them up, then repeats this all over again. See it in action, here: What grabbed my attention was how this app is much more than just a simulation. Juraj included system monitoring parts which monitor the server’s capacity he runs the app on: And it doesn’t end here.

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