Fjord Framework
My team and I are building the Fjord Framework, an open-source framework that deploys an API Proxy to enable client-side streaming from Kafka.
We’re building this as participants in Launch School’s Capstone phase.
The Capstone project experience is modeled after a Master’s thesis. Participants dive deeply into a narrow software engineering research problem domain as a team, and develop a unique solution tailored to the problem.
The Project:
- Participants digest multiple frameworks, patterns, and system design approaches through a purposeful analysis of books, whitepapers, published presentations, lectures, and discussions. Many even reach out to subject matter experts in the domain.
- The goal is to review all pertinent literature in a domain so that at the end of the process, Capstone participants themselves become subject matter experts in that domain.
- Every team produces open source software that benefits the entire community of software engineers.
Logistics:
- Size: Capstone teams each have about three or four participants, all graduates of Launch School’s Core program.
- Mentorship: each team has access to their own exclusive Project Mentor, a Capstone alumni now working as a senior software engineer, who provides industry-specfic feedback.
Vahid Dejwakh
Software Engineer at Microsoft;
Lover of good music and poetry
Vahid writes about interesting ideas at the intersection of software, system design, data, philosophy, psychology, policy, and business. He enjoys coffee and has a palate for spicy and diverse foods.
