Beat a Dino!

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  I outlived a Carnotaurus!

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  CockroachDB cluster holding steady even locally

Inspiration

Keeping the theme of prehistory in mind was tough, but eventually, I landed on what it would take to beat a dinosaur. Dinosaurus may be large animals that humans would rarely have had a chance to beat in physical strength but taking a different approach was the main inspiration for outliving a dinosaur.

What it does

The page takes your birthday input then compares it to the current date outputting a dinosaur from a lightly researched database that you could outlive at your current age.

How I built it

PHP was used for the page and a local cluster of CockroachDB to provide speed in the transactions of pulling information from the cluster.

Challenges I ran into

Having never worked with Postgresql or CockroachDB, implementing both interfaces was a longer struggle than expected.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I was personally proud of implementing a CockroachDB cluster that can move into larger scalability.

What we learned

Using Postgresql and setting up apache to play nice with a local CockroachDB cluster.

What's next for Beat a Dino!

Taking the functionality into a bot format allowing a fun little tool to use in a Twitch chat, Discord, or Twitter bot. Of course, adding more dinosaurs to the database takes priority, though!

Built With

• cockroachdb
• google-cloud
• lamp
• php