Hackathons are fun events where developers innovate, learn and build development communities. Whether conducted in an academic setting or a corporate one, the aim is to rapidly produce functional code implementations focused around one or more designated themes. Cloud Foundry is a perfect target platform for hackathons, since it supports fast application deployment for continuous integration, abstracted infrastructure, and ample technology choices in terms of buildpacks and services. For those less familiar with cloud computing, Cloud Foundry provides an ideal opportunity for participants to be introduced to new application hosting techniques (Platform as a Service) and learn keys concepts of building applications for the cloud. Cornelia Davis from Pivotal Software and Catherine Spence from Intel share their experiences in leveraging Cloud Foundry in support of numerous hackathons. They discuss what worked well, and less so, and share with you why and how you can deliver your own hackathon event.

1. Hack for Good (and Profit)
Using Cloud Foundry for Hackathons
Presenters: Cornelia Davis, Pivotal and Catherine Spence, Intel IT

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Objectives & Agenda
Objectives:
• Share our experience of using Cloud Foundry in numerous hackathons
• Discuss why and how you can deliver your own hackathon
Agenda:
• Overview
• Intel, Pivotal and other Hackathon Examples
• Cloud Foundry is Ideally Suited for Hackathons
• Cloud-Aware Apps
• Hackathon Best Practices
• Key Messages

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Overview
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Premise: An event where developers meet for collaborative computer
programming
• The spirit is to collaboratively build applications around a specified theme
• Make fast progress on applications that can really be used
• Offer an environment for learning & practicing new skills
• Fun contest where many people come together to hack, with ample
opportunity for creativity and innovation
• Friendly competition during set timeframe at a specific venue, with judging & prizes
• Enough room in problem statement for unexpected contributions

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Intel Code-For-Good Hackathons
Create & extend computing to connect & enrich lives of everyone on Earth
 Creating software-based solutions to a social problem
 Event for developers, designers, students, and subject matter experts
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One or two day hackathons:
• Intel Developer Forum Cloud Hackathon
• Georgia Tech Hackathon
Results
 Combine technology with social agenda - delight
 New skills – has translated into paid work experience
 Apps & prototypes to advance the computing
ecosystem

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Intel Cloud-Aware Code-a-thons
Enterprise training event
 Code cloud-aware apps and land them in Intel’s
cloud
 Developers compete for prizes
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One day session format:
• Overview Presentation on cloud-aware
• Roaming “road side assistance”
• Apps graded on how cool, useful and cloud-aware
• Lunch & snacks provided
Results
 Held 8 codeathons globally, training over 100
developers, delivering over 60 apps
 Created key learning & demand for PaaS

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Other Enterprise Cloud Foundry Hack-day
ExamplesGoals: Morale, Creativity, Inspiration
 Global – all CF staff across locations
 Projects explicitly distinct from mainline
repos/backlogs
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One day session format:
• All “regular work” ceased
• Group and individual work
• Cloud Foundry as the theme – open beyond that
• Lightning talks at end of day
Results
 Held 2 hack days, delivering more than 100
demonstrations
 Cross team knowledge sharing
 Resultant pull requests
Goals: Get Work Done
 Projects explicitly drawn from overtaxed
backlogs
 Help determine platform requirements
 Education
CFP and Project Acceptance:
• Cloud Foundry as one track
• Custom Services
• BOSH releases
Results
 Jump started Cloud Foundry platform
customizations
 Generated interest in corporate platform

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MoPaaS – PaaS Service Provider China
Public Event
 Goals: Promote PaaS awareness and afford learning
opportunity
 Co sponsored by MoPaaS, OSChina and Pivotal with
support from other partners
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Format:
• 6 week period
• Applications deployed to MoPaaS
• MoPaaS technical support available to participants
• Public judging for semi-finalists
• Semi-finalist entries (100) judged by experts
• Prizes awarded
Services
 “Standard” services – relational and NoSQL DB,
Rabbit MQ
 Object Storage, face recognition, voice recognition and OCR

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MoPaaS Competition
Results
 Over 300 apps under active development
 More than 2000 developers
 Five winning submissions
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Survey:
• Demographics
• Technology Preferences
• 92% of respondents said they would
continue using MoPaaS after the
competition

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Cloud Foundry is Ideally Suited for Hackathons
(and beyond)
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• Auto-detect runtimes
• Extensibility via
Buildpacks
• “Push and it works”
model
• CF Push [Appfile]
• CF Push [Docker]
• CF Push [.NET]
AUTO DEPLOY
AND SCALE
• Elastic Pivotal HD
• HAWQ Analytics
• Mobile Push
• Mobile Sync
• Mobile API
• MySQL HA
• Redis
• Rabbit MQ
• Elastic Search
• Cassandra
• Jenkins (Partner)
READY MIDDLEWARE SERVICES
• Instant Dynamic Routing
• Streaming Logging Agg
• ID/team/RBAC/Policy
• Four layers of built-in
Availability and Health
Management
• Application Performance
Monitoring (APM)
• Auto-scaling, Scheduling
INTEGRATED
OPERATIONAL BENEFITS
FOR EVERY APP
….and more
DEPLOY, OPERATE, UPDATE, SCALE ON ANY INFRASTRUCTURE

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Cloud-Aware Apps
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Create business value by taking full advantage of cloud

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Best Practices: Organizing the Event
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• Decide time: A typical hackathon is one or two days. Staying overnight is an
option if your participants are up for it.
• Find a place: at a business, school facility, or other venue
• Think through parking, access to bathrooms, ease of getting in and out (especially
for overnight hackathons), trash disposal, etc.
• Comfortable places to sit and work are a must.
• Provide the four basic ingredients: Food, Power, Internet, and Caffeine (not
necessarily in that order).
• Remove barriers to participation - make it possible for as many of your target
audience to participate as possible
• Publish the rules and grading criteria in advance

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Best Practices: Cloud Foundry Availability
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• What will your target cloud be?
• Public offerings from
• On-prem deployment
• Personal deployment – bosh-lite
• Ensure sufficient capacity
• Pre-allocate accounts? Self-service is preferred
• Have PaaS administrators on hand for things such as quota changes
• Prerequisites?
• Installation of CLI
• Participate in training
• …

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Best Practices: Running the Event
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• Make it fun, casual time where participants can set aside the "day to day" and
focus on building something cool
• Kick off with a "download" - an introduction to the topic & ground rules
• Help teams form organically, around common skillsets, interests, and needs.
Don't be too rigid about team structure.
• Consider periodic read-outs to ensure forward progress.
• When facilitating a hackathon, your role is to answer questions and solve
problems.
• Include a "show and tell" at the end of the event, where each team shows
what they accomplished.
• Encourage teams to think beyond the end of the hackathon for their projects

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Key Messages
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• Hackathons are popular with developers and a great venue for innovating
• There are many examples of successful hackathons in Cloud Foundry
community
• Cloud Foundry is a perfect fit for hackathons in that developers focus on their
apps instead of infrastructure details
• Take advantage of best practices to run your own hackathon

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Intel Codeathon Rubric
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Category Criteria Distinguished (4) Proficient (3) Good (2) Beginning (1)
Cool & Useful (28/100 points)
Novel & Fun idea / techniques
that can be used at Intel
Addresses a critical Intel strategy with
modern approach; major WOW
Addresses a known area with a modern
approach; Built with fun throughout
Addresses a critical Intel Strategy with
conventional approach; hints at a sense
of humor
Addresses a known mature area using
conventional approach; Pratical but
boring
Functionally complete
Done coding, is hosted in PaaS and it runs
properly, Source code uploaded to
GitHub
Done coding, is hosted in PaaS and it runs
properly but with many missing features
Still in the process of coding but has been
uploaded to PaaS for testing
In the process of coding but not uploaded
to PaaS
Cloud Aware (64/100 points)
Web Services Exposes and consumes web services Exposes web services Consumes web services
Does not expose or consume web
services
Stateless
Use MySQL as part of PaaS to store state
data
State data is written to a database
outside of PaaS There is no state data to be maintained State is maintained in memory
Scale out
Demonstate that performance improves
as the # instances are scaled
Demonstrate a common data store for
multiple app instances
Demonstate that the app can scale
beyond 2 instances App does not scale
Secure Input validation Least privilege Basic access control Authentication/encryption
Provisioned services Bind to 3 service Bind to 2 services Bind to one service
Does not bind to a PaaS Service (MySQL,
Redis, RabbitMQ)
Extra Credit (8/100 points)
UI - user-friendly interface,
clear graphics UI supports multiple devices (PC, SFF, etc) Solid, easy to use UI Emerging UI Very basic UI

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