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TalkingPoint – build a digital idea suggestion box

Analyze and build a digital idea- and suggestions box in which ideas and suggestions can be selected using an up-and downvoting system.

Description of the assignment

Our ToThePoint employees have made their hobby their work, which means we are constantly receiving creative ideas to start working with new technologies. Therefore we need a way to prioritise certain ideas so we can have some sleep from time to time 😉
To structure and fine-tune the ideas, add budgeting and finally initiate a voting poll we’re looking to build an application to help us get the most out of this creative pool of crazy Pointers.

Goals

Functional analysis
Design of a responsive UI
Development of both backend and frontend following the self-contained systems architecture
(Take note of Stefan Tilkov’s talk about SCS on http://scs-architecture.org)
The creation of a continuous deployment pipeline
Deployment with Docker on a Google Cloud-hosted Kubernetes cluster

What you will gain

You will experience how to design, develop and put in production an end-to-end enterprise-
grade production-ready web application.
Knowledge and experience with Kafka (the high throughput message bus behind LinkedIn)
You will gain knowledge and experience with Docker
You will gain real-life knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and google Cloud
That lovely feeling you get knowing your design will be used in production

What you need

Interest in a challenging but informative assignment
Basic knowledge of Java (and optionally Spring Boot or the will to learn)
You like to learn about big data and stream processing
You are curious to use Vue.JS to build a responsive UI with
You’de like to experience messaging and event driven architectures
You can’t wait to learn a heck of a lot in a relatively limited time period.

Technologies you'll be using

Location of your assignment

Veldkant 33B, 2550 Kontich

Your mentor

Steven Heyninck – Business Unit Manager ToThePoint

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