About the project

What inspired me

I wanted to understand what production engineering actually means in practice, especially because MLH also offers a production engineering fellowship. This hackathon felt like a good opportunity to explore that beforehand.

I was drawn in by the premise: success is not about inventing the flashiest app idea or polishing a UI. It is about whether the service can be tested, operated, and stressed the way real systems are. I had never joined a hackathon framed that way, and I liked that it rewards engineering habits I want to build anyway.

How I built it

I built on the MLH template stack: Python and Flask, with Peewee as the ORM and PostgreSQL for persistence, and uv for managing the environment and dependencies (as described in the project README). On top of that I used HTML and CSS for a simple UI. I used Docker so the app could be restarted automatically on crash.

Built With

• css
• docker
• flask
• html
• peewee
• postgresql
• python