Challenge Objectives

• Build a processor that will listen to kafka events and will feed/update ES (ElasticSearch) with data from the event payload.

Tech Stack

• Node.js

• Express.js

• Swagger

• DynamoDB

• Apache Kafka

• ElasticSearch

Project Background

In this series of challenges, we will build the version 5 (V5) of the challenge API.

Code Access

This is a new project.

Here is a similar processor as an example https://github.com/topcoder-platform/submission-processor-es

 

The code for our challenge API is hosted here:

Repo: https://github.com/topcoder-platform/challenge-api

Branch: develop

Detailed requirements

1. Feed ES with data

As part of this challenge, you need to build a processor that will listen to specific kafka events published by our challenge API V5 and it will insert/update data related to challenges into ElasticSearch.

You will have to run the challenge API locally.

The processor name will be challenge-processor-es

 

The following topics are in the scope of this challenge:

• challenge.action.created

• challenge.action.updated

2. Unit testing

You need to cover this new processor with strong unit/e2e testing. Include both negative and positive tests.

 

Should you have any questions, feel free to ask on the challenge forum!

What to Submit

Submit your source code in a zip file including a README.md file with detailed instructions on how to set up, start and test the processor.

Final Submission Guidelines

Please read above