Most hackathons end the moment the demo works on your laptop, but in the real world, that’s just the beginning.
We invite you to our Production Engineering Hackathon, a virtual event designed to test if your code can actually survive production. Using our pre-built project template, you’ll skip the boilerplate and dive straight into the deep end of Production Engineering (aka Site Reliability Engineering), competing to keep your service alive through simulated outages, massive load tests, and chaos engineering challenges.
For every winning category, your team gets a massive choice: Fast-track your tech career with Preferential Admission to our Production Engineering Fellowship*, OR take home premium hardware perfectly matched to your new skills.
Here is what’s on the line:
🏆 Best All-Round Team: Soundcore Sleep A20 Earbuds by Anker (because bulletproof code means you don't get paged at 3 AM!)
🛡️ Top in Reliability: iFixIt Pro Tech Toolkits (for the engineers who can diagnose and fix anything).
🚀 Top in Scalability: Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kits (take your virtual containers and build a physical cluster on your desk).
🚨 Top in Incident Response: ASUS ZenScreen MB169CK-P Portable USB Monitor (because you can never have too much observability).
🌱 Best Beginner Team: Premium Keychron Mechanical Keyboards (for >50% first-time hacker teams—we're investing directly in your ultimate workspace).
Requirements
- We require all teams to submit a 2 minute or less demo video where we expect you to show us what you built and how it meets the Quest goals.
- Your code must be available in some sort of public repository.
- Your code and video must remain public post event if you want to continue being eligible for prizes. If your repo and video are not public we will select new winners.
- Your demo video must state the name of the hackathon at the beginning of the video.
- Ex. "Hey I'm Sam and this is my demo for Production Engineering Hackathon."
- You must have completed all the registration steps on Devpost.
- Note that Hosted by MLH events require registration and check-in on MLH's event page.
- Your email on all check in and registration platforms (Devpost, & MLH's event page) must match.
- Your video must be created the weekend of the hackathon.
- We don't allow you to submit your project to other hackathons.
- You may not submit projects that include prior work.
- Each team can have a maximum of 5 members. We strongly encourage working in teams, and only team projects will be eligible for prizes.
- You are allowed to submit only one project to this hackathon.
- While folks over the age of 13 are welcome to participate in this hackathon, you need to be at least 18 years old to be eligible for the fellowship opportunity.
Prizes
Best All-Round Team
Preferential Admissions Process for PE Fellowship OR
Soundcore Sleep A20 Earbuds by Anker (because bulletproof code means you don't get paged at 3 AM!)
Best Team: Reliability
Preferential Admissions Process for PE Fellowship OR
iFixIt Pro Tech Toolkit (because you can diagnose and fix anything!)
Best Team: Scalability
Preferential Admissions Process for PE Fellowship OR
Raspberry Pi 5 Starter Kit (take your virtual containers and build a physical cluster on your desk).
Best Team: Incident Response
Preferential Admissions Process for PE Fellowship OR
ASUS ZenScreen MB169CK-P Portable USB Monitor (because you can never have too much observability).
Bet Beginner Team (for teams made up of more than 50% first-time hackers)
Preferential Admissions Process for PE Fellowship OR
Premium Keychron Mechanical Keyboards (we're investing directly in your ultimate workspace).
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Amanda Davria
MLH
Hugo Castro
MLH
Judging Criteria
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Reliability Engineering
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