Engineering task library · Version 5 Work that feels like work. Design a system. Diagnose tail latency. Ship a migration. Recover a failed rollout. Pick a focused ticket or follow a project through its delivery phases.
1380 tickets · 138 projects · 26 engineering fields · Four difficulty levels
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Field percentages are editorial estimates of the ticket's engineering focus. They total 100%; they are not measured time, proficiency scores, or ownership evidence.
Pattern topics identify design choices to practice. Read the ticket's acceptance criteria and justify the simplest suitable approach. Tags are not capability or ownership evidence; an untagged ticket has no curated pattern topic assigned.
Field counts and the engineering field filter use each project's primary field. Estimated ticket labels can span multiple fields.
Backend 60 Data engineering 50 Platform engineering 50 Security 50 Frontend 60 Mobile 50 Developer tooling 50 Quality engineering 50 Applied AI 50 Integrations 60 Real-time systems 50 Accessibility 50 System design 60 Performance engineering 50 Database engineering 50 Distributed systems 60 Site reliability 50 Cloud infrastructure 50 Networking 50 API design 50 Storage systems 50 Compiler and language tooling 60 Embedded and edge 50 Privacy engineering 50 Systems programming 60 DevOps 60 CTIMER-109 Chore Intermediate
A slow-started job is blamed on execution time because metrics combine queue delay and work duration. Separate them.
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Embedded and edge 50% Performance engineering 30% Site reliability 20% A deterministic edge-job scheduler emulatorCTIMER-110 Story Intermediate
Engineers cannot explain why a job was skipped after restart. Export bounded state transitions without running jobs.
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Developer tooling 50% Embedded and edge 50% A deterministic edge-job scheduler emulatorCJOUR-101 Task Foundational
The byte-array stub permits writes that real flash-like storage would reject. Declare and enforce the chosen emulator model.
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Embedded and edge 60% Storage systems 40% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-102 Task Foundational
Truncated synthetic records are indistinguishable from valid short payloads. Add explicit length and integrity fields.
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Embedded and edge 50% Storage systems 50% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-103 Bug Intermediate
Retried uploads mint new event IDs and duplicate accepted readings. Persist identity with the original record.
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Embedded and edge 50% Distributed systems 30% Storage systems 20% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-104 Task Advanced
A record appears readable before its body finishes writing. Introduce a commit-marker protocol compatible with the emulator.
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Storage systems 60% Embedded and edge 40% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-105 Bug Advanced
Startup stops at partial data and loses earlier committed events. Scan the valid committed prefix conservatively.
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Storage systems 60% Embedded and edge 40% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-106 Task Intermediate
Page wrap overwrites unacknowledged events. Separate writable capacity from reclaimable pages.
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Embedded and edge 50% Storage systems 50% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-107 Bug Expert
A cut during page-header activation leaves two pages claiming to be newest. Resolve generations through a declared ordering rule.
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Storage systems 60% Embedded and edge 40% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-108 Task Advanced
The gateway erases a page after sending bytes, before the receiver acknowledges them. Gate reclamation on durable acknowledgements.
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Storage systems 40% Embedded and edge 30% Distributed systems 30% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-109 Chore Advanced
A metadata write for every status poll causes unnecessary emulated erase work. Batch only nonauthoritative counters.
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Performance engineering 40% Storage systems 30% Embedded and edge 30% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalCJOUR-110 Story Intermediate
Debugging currently boots the journal and may erase pages. Add a read-only page inspector.
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Developer tooling 40% Embedded and edge 30% Storage systems 30% A power-loss-tolerant edge event journalBENV / Cloud infrastructure Manage short-lived review environments with bounded resources and safe cleanup.
BDNS / Networking Move a service endpoint while accounting for caches, negative answers, and resolver behavior.
BPROXY / Networking Correct proxy behavior for trusted forwarding, connection reuse, and streaming cancellation.
BMTLS / Networking Operate authenticated service connections through expiry, rotation, and trust changes.
BEGRESS / Networking Fetch approved external resources through a bounded provider-neutral network boundary.
BNETDIAG / Networking Diagnose address-family, packet-size, and routing failures in an authorized local lab.
BAPIVER / API design Evolve a partner API with explicit compatibility, deprecation, and client migration contracts.
BAPIBULK / API design Design bulk record imports with explicit operation state, item errors, and recovery semantics.
BAPIPAGE / API design Expose a changing catalog through bounded filters, stable cursors, and explicit consistency.
BAPIAUTH / API design Design scoped partner credentials with revocation, safe errors, and client lifecycle controls.
BAPIHOOK / API design Expose event subscriptions with immutable envelopes, bounded delivery, and safe replay.
CGRID / Frontend Make spreadsheet-like stock editing predictable across validation and concurrent updates.
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