The hackathon is a cherished tradition at Delphix Engineering Kickoff and our recently concluded Fall EKO was no exception. Based on feedback from previous EKOs, we moved away from our traditional a noon to noon hackathon schedule and instead gave a folks a full day to hack with no events scheduled during the time. Additionally we encouraged people from outside engineering to both pitch ideas and participate in the event which led to some great hacks around sales, HR and recruiting.
The hackathon presentations were held the next afternoon and was judges by a cross functional panel of execs. As always the creativity on display was amazing and this is just a partial list of the 35 hacks that were presented:
- Revamping the Delphix Technology Scholarship program
- Data Mining Delphix with Splunk
- HR Tracking Dashboard
- Conference room tracking via Raspberry Pi
- OpenZFS Build Server
The judges felt that this was the closest hackathon they have seen and had a tough time deciding on the winners:
Best in Show: Brett Lazarus and Eyal Kaspi took our existing monitoring and reporting tool, Mission Control, and made it possible to hook it up to Tableau.… Read the rest
