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The VMworld Hackathon I failed to attend… And how our team won – Part 2
After finding a great team to be part of at the VMworld Europe Hackathon and defining our goals, it was time to come up with a plan on what we wanted to do.
As a recap, the main goals of our team were:
- Implement Conway’s Game of Life as Kubernetes Pods
- Use VMware VKE
- Use Clarity to visualize the pod status
- Monitor the platform using Wavefront
- Have fun learning, working and meeting great people
We had a great set of goals that we wanted to achieve and so we started to work out a plan to get there. The hackathon in itself is pretty short, you get 4 hours to do all your work, present and demonstrate. That’s not a lot of time.
That’s why we decided to work iteratively and asked ourselves the question “What’s the minimal viable outcome that we want?”. It’s a great question that gets asked a lot when working on projects that are time constrained. What is the goal of the project? What is the minimal requirement if we run out of time? It’s a sad reality that sometimes this happens, but we all experienced it.
We decided that just coming up with a plan is a little too boring, we want to bring a story around this, a story of life and the evolution of it.
This is a story in 3 parts:
- Part 1 – The team and the goal
- Part 2 – The story, the plan and the problem
- Part 3 – The implementation, the result and the future
