Welcome Innovators! 

This challenge ending July 11th, 2022 will be the first of many opportunities to work on real-world business problems and technical scenarios. We invite you to use your innovative spirit and Microsoft Azure skills to make real business impact, expand your portfolio, and contribute to the open-source community.

Here is your first challenge. 
APIs and microservices are designed to support the development of integrated digital experience. However, when introducing a large number of APIs, operations, policies, and other artifacts the impact on DevOps engineers is often forgotten.

How can solutions with large numbers of APIs exposed in the back end avoid failure? How can DevOps successfully deploy and manage APIs at scale across environments (Dev -> QA -> Production)?

Tackle this challenge and build an open source project that uses Azure services and workloads to address API Management with Azure at scale.

If you’re just getting started with Azure or API Management, check out the Resources tab for learning content that can give you the jumpstart you need to tackle this challenge. 

We can’t wait to see your creativity come to life. 

Collaborate. Create. Innovate.  

Please read the Microsoft Code of Conduct  

Requirements

What to Build 

Build an open source application prototype that uses Azure services and workloads to address API Management with Azure at scale. 

What to Submit 

  • Provide a URL to your working prototype.  
  • Provide a URL to your GitHub code repository. Repository must be public and have an open source license from one of the following: 
  • Include a video (3-5 minutes) that demonstrates your project in action (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook Video and made public). Video must include an explanation of how your project addresses the challenge statement.
  • Provide an Azure Reference Architecture outlining a high-level overview of the tools and services used within the application.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$11,000 in prizes

First Place

• $5000 USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Shout out on FB @MSFTDev.US and Twitter @MSTCommunity
• Swag valued at up to $150

Second Place

• $2500 USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Shout out on FB @MSFTDev.US and Twitter @MSTCommunity
• Swag valued at up to $100

Third Place

• $1000 USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Shout out on FB @MSFTDev.US and Twitter @MSTCommunity
• Swag valued at up to $100

Honorable Mentions (3)

• $500 in USD
• Featured on the official Azure Developer Community blog
• Swag valued at up to $50

First 10 Eligible Submissions (10)

• $100 in USD

Only the first 10 eligible Project submissions are eligible

Completion of Learning Path (200)

• Swag valued up to $20
Only the first 200 eligible participants who complete the learning path are eligible.

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Rishabh Saha

Rishabh Saha
Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Microsoft

Wael Kdouh

Wael Kdouh
Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Microsoft

Colin McCollough

Colin McCollough
Sr Cloud Solution Architect (CSA), Microsoft

Judging Criteria

  • 30% | Potential Impact
    Includes the extent to which the solution may help to solve a customer problem.
  • 30% | Quality of the Idea
    Includes creativity and originality of the idea.
  • 40% | Azure Implementation
    Includes how well Azure services were leveraged by the developer.

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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