Capstone Program

Capstone

Launch Your Career

Duration: 4 - 7+ months

Instructor-led, Team-based

The Capstone Program is an optional, admissions-based, and final phase for students who have completed the Core Curriculum. The goal of the Capstone Program is to give students an intense finishing experience that results in a career-launching job. Because the end goal of Capstone is very ambitious, it requires in total 4 to 7+ months of full-time focus, and possibly even longer. The first 16 weeks will be synchronous classroom instruction Monday-Friday all day; after that, there will be a 1-3+ month Career Search process. To participate in Capstone, students need to complete the Core Curriculum with high marks. It's not uncommon for Capstone participants to call it the hardest thing they've ever done. The projects, graduates, and salaries coming out of Capstone are industry leading and rival those at top-tier universities. See the Results & Outcomes page for salaries and average duration to accepted offer.

The Capstone Program is a transition away from Mastery-Based Learning with the goal of applying already-mastered fundamentals to higher level concepts. We call this Just in Time Learning.

Capstone will cover all relevant topics that top employers demand, including the following (not a comprehensive list):

Advanced algorithmic problem solving
Databases (nosql, rdbms) & Database Design
Full-stack Development and Frameworks
Cloud Infrastructure
Agile Team-based Development
Software Architecture & System Design
Distributed Systems
Service Oriented Architectures

Capstone Project

Besides covering the above topics, we will spend a significant amount of time on the Capstone Project. The Capstone Project is modeled after a Master's thesis or a PhD dissertation. They are research projects meant to force participants to dive deeply into a narrow problem domain. There are no project templates from which to choose and every Capstone project will be a unique research project. It's common for participants to read books, watch videos, read whitepapers and published research, and even reach out to subject matter experts in the domain. The goal is to review all pertinent literature in a domain so that at the end of the process, Capstone participants themselves become subject matter experts in that domain. The role of the Capstone Instructor and Capstone Project Mentors is to provide guidance, but Capstone participants earn everything themselves based on their own work and research. Only when you have a superb team can this type of research-oriented project be undertaken, and this is why we are only able to do this after the Core Curriculum.

Capstone Project Mentors

During the Capstone Project phase, each team will be assigned working software engineers as mentors. These mentors work at industry-leading companies and will meet with you periodically to help provide guidance on the research and the project. All mentors were themselves Capstone graduates, so not only will they be able to offer guidance and insight based on their work experience, they will also be able to do so based on their own Capstone experience. The Capstone Project Mentors are an additional layer of support specifically for the Capstone Project phase on top of the normal Capstone Instructor(s). Below are some of our mentors (shown in random order).

Dylan Barnard
Software Engineer
Splunk
Platform Engineering, Golang, Microservices, CI/CD, Observability
Jason Overby
Senior Software Engineer
Walmart Global Tech
Node, TypeScript, AWS, React
Julius Zerwick
Software Engineer II
DigitalOcean
Golang, MySQL, gRPC, APIs, Distributed Systems
Derick Gross
Product Engineer
Ridgeline
Python, TypeScript, APIs, Domain-driven Design, Data Consistency
Sienna Wood
Senior Software Engineer
Green Chef
JavaScript, React, UX, Graphql, Node, Rails
Sunny Beatteay
Senior Software Engineer
DigitalOcean
Golang, Ruby, MySQL, Distributed Systems
Jon Kulton
Software Engineer
Knock
Node, Microservices, AWS, GraphQL, React Native
Rachel Minto
Senior Software Engineer
Wistia
JavaScript, Ruby, Incident Response, Videos
Max Hawkins
Software Engineer II
Gatsby
React, CSS-in-JS, Static Site Generation, Jamstack
Bharat Agarwal
Software Engineer
Atlassian
Chaos Engineering, AWS, Golang
Catherine Emond
Senior Developer
Shopify
Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Web Analytics
Daniel Rote
Senior Software Engineer
Evernote
TypeScript, GraphQL, PWA, Offline-first
Ido Moskovich
Senior Engineer
Etsy
SQL, JavaScript, APIs
Ian Evans
Product Engineer
Ridgeline
AWS, APIs, Python
Melissa Manousos
Software Engineer
PayPal
Full-stack Development, GraphQL, Ruby, JavaScript, Node, React
Kelvin Wong
Backend Engineer
Thought Machine
Golang, Kafka, K8s, gRPC, Microservices

No Upfront Cost

Other than a small down payment, we do not collect any fees upfront to participate in Capstone. The Capstone fee is calculated based on an Income Sharing Agreement (ISA), which as of this writing, is 18% of your first year salary or $18k, whichever is higher. Please note that while we do not foresee any upcoming changes, we reserve the right to change this number at any point (until you sign the ISA contract). We collect a small down payment that goes towards the total fee, and you pay us the remainder of the Capstone fee after you start collecting paychecks.

The Launch School ISA only looks at base salary and doesn't include bonuses or equity compensation. Raises, too, won't affect the total as we are only looking at base salary in the offer letter. This is the lowest cost ISA being offered by any company, which means we have the industry's best results at the lowest cost.

Requirements

To participate in the Capstone program, you should understand that:

  • We're incentivized to help you compete for a top job at the best company possible, and your goal should be the same.
  • You must be able to learn full-time, often during evenings and weekends. Time commitment will be a minimum of 45 to 60 hours/week.
  • You must be prepared to work really, really hard.

Performance Requirements

  • You must have completed and mastered all the fundamental materials in the Launch School Core Curriculum, and you must have done well on all or vast majority of the assessments.
  • You must be available full-time for the entire duration of Capstone, including the Career Search phase. In its entirety, it could last 4-7+ months.
  • You must have passed all assessments within the last 18 months. If completion of an assessment has been over 18 months, then you have to retake that assessment.
  • You must have demonstrated excellence in technical proficiency throughout the Core Curriculum.
  • You must have demonstrated excellence in professionalism in all your interactions with everyone at Launch School.

Location Requirements

  • You must be legally able to work in the United States (US citizen or Permanent Resident).
  • You must reside in the United States.
  • We have preferences for certain cities, but we are also able to take on remote-only participants. Make sure to note the salary differences between city-specific and remote salaries in the Results and Outcomes page.

We would especially like to encourage residents of the following cities to apply to Capstone: NYC, SFBA (San Fran/Bay Area), Austin, Boston, Chicago, Portland, Denver, Los Angeles, and Seattle. If your city isn't listed above and you've done well on the assessments, we can work with you on a remote-only job hunt.

If you're not a resident of the US but would still like to participate in Capstone, see the FAQ questions at the bottom of this page.

Logistics

There are three Capstone cohorts throughout the year: Spring, Summer, and Fall. The spring cohort typically starts in mid-January, summer in mid-May, and the fall cohort in early September. The cohort finalizes a couple of months before the official start date. Capstone participants must finish the Core Curriculum at least 6 weeks before the cohort start date in order to complete the Capstone preparatory work.

If you're seriously considering Capstone, it's imperative that you speak with an instructor when you're at approximately course 210-225 range (if you are beyond course 225 and are interested in Capstone but haven't spoken to an instructor, please do so now). Most applicants to Capstone are known to the admissions team many months in advance, and the cohort starts to form about 2 months prior to the cohort start date. You should be nearing the finish of the Core Curriculum about 1 to 2 months prior to the cohort start date to have a chance to participate in that cohort. This includes retaking any expired assessments.

The Capstone application is at the end of the Core Curriculum. For further inquiries regarding Capstone, please email hello@launchschool.com (but please read the FAQ at the bottom of this page first).

Admission Preferences

In general, we're looking for the following attributes:

  • You have completed all of the Core Curriculum.
  • You have excelled on all the assessments.
  • You're actively looking for an engineering job.
  • You can make finding a job your top priority.
  • You can make Capstone a full-time activity (45-60 hours/week).
  • You must be legally able to work and reside in the US (see FAQ for exceptions).

Along with the above, we're also looking for people who:

  • ... have demonstrated extremely high work ethic.
  • ... are a pleasure to work with and be around.
  • ... have high character and integrity.
  • ... are professional and courteous.
  • ... know how to study and learn things deeply.
  • ... are well spoken and can communicate professionally.
  • ... have superior writing ability.
  • ... are extremely positive.

To increase your chances of being admitted, produce artifacts that can convince us of the above attributes. We can determine a lot of this from your assessments since most people have been at Launch School for months or years by the time they apply. But if you have great writing samples or recordings of you speaking in public, we want to see them. We also look at well-received blog posts or threads/comments that you've contributed over the years in the Launch School community and in the courses.

Capstone Testimonials

These are students who have completed the entire Launch School curriculum, from the Core Curriculum through Capstone. The entire process typically lasts for 1-2+ years. Read their stories to get a feel for their journey and transformation.

"Completing Launch School's Core Curriculum and Capstone program was one of the best decisions I've made in my life."
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Stephanie Cunnane
"Launch School helped me switch careers and changed my life! After spending 1 year and 7 months going through the Core and Capstone program I am now making more than 3 times my previous salary while working completely from home with tons of flexibility."
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Adam Peterson
"Launch School's Core and Capstone programs are life-changing experiences. It's difficult to overstate how much they already have and will continue to improve my life for the rest of my working years. Everyone has that dream of making six figures but Launch School helped me achieve it."
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Austin Miller
"I'm 100% certain that absent Launch School I never would have gotten from there to here. Meaning a zombie GitHub account and no real knowledge or skill to a well-compensated engineer at exactly the type of company that an engineer wants to be at."
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Ryan Schaul
"Launch School is incredible. It's hard to overstate how effective it is at preparing you for a professional career as a software engineer."
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Will Lotherington
"I ended up accepting an offer in just under 6 weeks for a position I am overjoyed with making a previously unbelievable-to-me salary and having technical conversations daily that would've sounded like gibberish to me a year ago. I will never stop talking about LS to anyone who will listen!!"
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Sheila Babadi
"I unfortunately found the options for my specific field of study limited so I've spent the past 15 years of my professional life in a series of stable but largely unfulfilling jobs. Because of Launch School I am now in a field that truly interests me and I'm on an income trajectory that will allow me to give back. provide a stable base for my family and accomplish many of the things that make life enjoyable to me."
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Armando Mota
"I had never seen a line of code in my life before Launch School but the job I got out of the process came with an outrageously high salary (especially for Arizona) and I got the job in under two months after hitting the job market. Capstone was key to get the results I got but I think Core was where the magic happened."
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Juan Palma
"I decided to enroll in Capstone because I wanted to take on a larger engineering project. I ended up getting a job as an SDE II with a great salary and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Launch School to anyone interested in software development as a career. It has been truly life changing."
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Dorey Miller
"For the past two years I've been singing Launch School's praises as a coding school. I knew I was learning valuable skills but I had to trust the process and hope that my efforts would eventually pay off. Now that they have I can recommend Launch School as a life-changing opportunity."
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Ben Zelinski
"Finding Launch School has been life changing. I got an amazing six-figure job offer that was above and beyond what I ever dreamed was possible."
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Cody Stair
"In my job hunt which lasted exactly two weeks there was never an interview that I walked into where I wasn't confident. This confidence and drive instilled in me by Launch School allowed me to go to multiple interviews succeed in various interview formats and join a company that I love as a senior engineer."
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Gabriel De Almeida
"Capstone has helped me secure and perform strongly on a Level 2 Software Engineer role with no prior experience."
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Kelvin Wong
"I can't speak highly enough of the support of both the staff and student community fostered at Launch School. Those who commit to the Launch School path will find themselves surrounded by dedicated and encouraging fellow students and staff who will then comprise a strong network of top-notch Software Engineers."
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Melissa Manousos
"Even after accepting a lead instructor position with a notable bootcamp I was unsatisfied with my career trajectory. It was only once I joined Capstone that I saw the true power of "just-in-time" learning. I refined my understanding of higher level concepts designed and built an amazing project with a distributed team and landed an engineering role with a world-class organization led by a legendary tech entrepreneur."
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Derick Gross
"I had a mountain of student loan debt that I'd taken on to get an undergraduate and then graduate degree and knew I'd never be able to pay off. I completed the core curriculum and joined Capstone which then got me a six-figure salary as a Software Engineer within 4 weeks of starting the job hunt."
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Wendy Kuhn
"I didn't just want a job I wanted a rewarding career where I could meaningfully contribute and grow for years to come. With the baseline knowledge and habits established in the core curriculum and the intensity of the Capstone program I feel well prepared to stay relevant across an ever-changing industry."
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William Mills
"I had been working for ten years in a different industry and was ready for a career change. I was at the point where I needed something beyond self-study to prepare me for a career as a developer. Luckily I found Launch School."
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Jason Overby
"It's hard to overestimate the role Launch School's Capstone and the Core Curriculum programs played in me getting my first full time tech job. My first full time tech job far exceeded my expectations in terms of salary and seniority level."
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Daniel Rote
"I believe that the Capstone program gave me the rare opportunity to get serious mentorship and team experience that would have taken years to receive on the job."
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Jacob Coker-Dukowitz
"Experts always return to fundamentals because they are the foundation on which everything else is built. Launch School's core program embodies this principle by emphasizing mastery of fundamentals through purposeful individual study."
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Sienna Wood
"I would not hesitate to say that Launch School was the most well-structured and effective learning experience I've ever had the pleasure of participating in."
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Nick Miller
"I eventually landed an offer with DigitialOcean - which is beyond my imagination!"
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Ying Chyi Gooi
"Anyone who aspires to push themselves to be the best that they can be should consider Capstone. Capstone really is a fantastic career-launching step."
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Josh Nelson
"The core curriculum provides a solid platform and jumping off point to go learn almost anything you could want to in programming"
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Max Appleton
"Within two weeks of sending out my first application I was getting contacted so often that I had to start turning away opportunities for interviews. I had the freedom to choose where I would work and I ended up accepting an incredible offer for a Software Engineer II position from a tech startup in Manhattan."
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Tannr Allard
"I never thought I'd be making 6 figures in my twenties but I just landed my number 1 choice company and in a mid-level Software Engineering role just two weeks after completing Capstone."
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Steven Shen
"And the end result? I've landed my dream job at DigitalOcean as a Software Engineer II for the Network Services team skipping an entry level role and working on projects & technologies that I thought out of my reach just 2 years ago. And more than doubling my salary from my previous job!"
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Julius Zerwick
"Your ultimate goal should be to get one of the top jobs out there. And trust me the Launch School team and their curriculum are more than capable of helping you to achieve that."
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Konstantin Minevskiy
"Was it all worth it in the end? Without a doubt my answer is a resounding yes! After 10 weeks on the job hunt I accepted an offer for a position where I'll be making more than $100k/year."
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Tiffany Han
"Within 10 weeks of my first application I had accepted a large salary and a small bonus at a company whose mission I was genuinely excited about."
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Elise Olivares
"From the first glance it was apparent that Launch School had been founded by industry veterans. I have never encountered a curriculum more in-depth and rigorous"
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Sunny Beatteay
"I often thought about making a career change into software development but it wasn't until I found Launch School that I felt confident that I could make that ambition a reality."
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Walid Wahed
"Had it not been for Launch School and Capstone I would still be working a dead-end job with no real ambitions. Now that I am on the hiring side I would not hesitate to hire Capstone graduates from Launch School especially from personal experience that Capstone is the real deal."
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Timmy Lee
"Capstone - If I could sum it up in one phrase it'd be this: you will blow yourself away. Your foundational investment will payoff as you build something truly awesome."
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Lukas Nimmo
"I was able to join a company in a new domain with a new tech stack because Launch School doesn't focus on the hot topic of the day but the more important underlying ideas and concepts."
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Michael Mentele
"I can say with confidence that there is simply no better way to launch a career in software engineering than with Launch School."
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Tyler Guillen
"Thanks to Launch School's guidance philosophy curriculum and Capstone Program I am now a Software Engineer working a job in NYC and earning well over $100k/year."
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Antoine LeClercq
"I have not once regretted my decision to join Launch School and its Capstone program."
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Vincent DeVendra
"The fact of the matter is that I simply would not have been provided the top quality job opportunity that I ultimately accepted if it wasn't for the process that we followed and the mentoring that we were given."
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Perry Carbone
The Capstone program played a vital role in bridging the gap between academic knowledge and practical skills. Having been employed as a software engineer for the past year, I realize the program was akin to an introduction to the realities of a software engineering job. Engaging in tangible projects and producing concrete results, I not only developed technical expertise but also gained confidence.
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Jacob deVarennes
I’m over a year past graduation and onto my second job and I still receive invaluable support and encouragement from Capstone staff and the alumni community. If I had to start over today, I would absolutely pick Launch School Core + Capstone again.
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Benjamin Perrault
Choosing Launch School for my software engineering education has been a game-changer in my career. Completing both the Core Curriculum and Capstone program was hands down the best decision I made on my journey to becoming a software engineer, and it paved the way for landing a fantastic role at a top-tier tech company.
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El Mehdi
During the interview process, I found myself needing to quickly grasp Python—a programming language not covered in Launch School's curriculum. To my surprise, within just a few days, I successfully passed a take-home test and a live coding interview.
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Alex Riviere
This program opened the doors for me to move out of an unfulfilling career and jump directly into a new role in software that doubled what I was making before as a Structural Engineer!
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Chase Sobey
Within my first month of my job, I have been trusted with leading major projects and features at my first company not only because of how strong my understanding and mastery of fundamental concepts are, but also because of my ability to communicate those ideas effectively to my peers.
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Stephen Watzman
With Launch School's mastery based learning & transparency around Capstone graduates' excellent results, I felt very comfortable joining Launch School & pursuing a software engineering career.
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Alex Bair
Launch School's rigorous and in-depth training bridged the gap between my previous career and the tech industry. The emphasis on fundamentals, mastery-based approach, and collaborative learning environment gave me the confidence and competence to present myself as a strong candidate to tech companies, ultimately securing a rewarding position in a highly competitive job market.
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Christopher Brum

Capstone Projects

As part of the Capstone Program, students organize into teams to work on a Capstone Project. Below are some of the engineering projects that have come out of Capstone.

Fjord

Fjord is an open-source framework that allows end users to receive Kafka streaming data in real-time.

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Retrospect

Retrospect is an observability tool that allows you to record back-end activity in an easily searchable manner replacing the process of pinging servers and searching logs.

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Tapestry

Tapestry is an open source orchestration framework for the deployment of user entity data pipelines.

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Guardrail

Guardrail is an open source tool that generates regression tests for microservices using captured HTTP traffic.

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Pioneer

Pioneer is a self-hosted feature flag management tool which lets users manage the rollout of new features in a deployed application.

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Pilot

Pilot is an open-source multi-cloud framework that provisions an internal PaaS with a workflow-agnostic build deploy and release pipeline.

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Gander

Gander is an open-source solution for deploying isolated ephemeral apps based on your pull requests.

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Tacklebox

Tacklebox is an open-source serverless framework that offers webhooks as a service.

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Jolt

Jolt is a lightweight open-source framework that builds and deploys JAMstack applications with serverless functions.

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Ekko

Ekko is an open-source framework allowing developers to easily add realtime infrastructure and in-transit message processing to web applications.

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Dendro

Dendro is an open-source serverless monitoring framework for small distributed applications.

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Beekeeper

Beekeeper is an open-source Backend as a Service (BaaS) built to handle traffic from one-off events. It is an NPM package that creates a CLI tool to spin up AWS services which make up a virtual waiting room.

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Haven

Haven is an open-source developer tool for managing your application secrets. Built using Node.js and Amazon Web Services it is easy to set up and integrate with your Node applications. It protects your secrets through encryption access control and injection at runtime.

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Stagehand

Stagehand is a drop-in solution that provides review apps for modern frontend applications. Using AWS GitHub Actions and some Stagehand client-side code we set-up deploy manage and teardown review apps for your frontend application.

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Campion

Campion is a free open-source tool to help protect your site or service from dependency failure. It is an edge-based circuit breaking middleware that utilizes an automatic fail fast mechanism when a dependency is down.

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Satellite

Satellite is an open-source GraphQL backend-as-a-service (BaaS). It lets teams easily deploy and manage GraphQL backends for web applications.

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River

River is a drop-in real-time service for web applications. It provides an easy-to-deploy and ready-to-scale solution for existing applications with real-time needs.

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Maestro

Maestro is an open-source easy-to-use framework for deploying serverless workflows using Node.js and AWS Step Functions. Using Maestro aids development not only in the initial phase of a project but throughout the ongoing maintenance as well.

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Jade

Jade is a framework that makes it simple to deploy and maintain JAMstack applications. Jade abstracts away the time and complexity of provisioning services and writing backend code related to the underlying infrastructure so developers can focus on building their applications.

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Bento

A blazing fast serverless video transcoding pipeline that can be easily deployed to Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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Apex

API proxy for logging and controlling traffic between microservices.

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Backpack

An open-source Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) that exposes an API for common backend functionality like database persistence and user authentication.

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Venice

An open-source framework for deploying and managing stream processing pipelines using Kafka for users who want to set up a streaming pipeline with minimal hassle.

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Mothership

An open source Heroku-like and self-hosted platform as a service built with a multi-tenant architecture using Docker and Docker Swarm.

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RedPoint

A web-native computational notebook designed for sharing executable code alongside stylized notes. Supports multiple-languages webhooks and API calls.

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Crato

A centralized logging management framework that allows for easy setup configuration and deployment using Kafka and InfluxDB

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CushionDB

A progressive web application (PWA) compliant offline-first database for web-based mobile-first applications

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Mashr

An open source easy-to-use data pipeline orchestration and monitoring framework for small applications that deploys to the GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

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Nami

A serverless framework for consuming webhooks at scale that deploys on AWS (Amazon Web Services)

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SpaceCraft

An open-source browser-based REPL for Ruby JavaScript and Python that enables real-time collaboration between users.

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Prefixy

A highly scalable query optimized hosted prefix search service for building autocomplete suggestions

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Chronos

An easy-to-deploy event capturing framework built with NodeJS Apache Kafka TimescaleDB and PipelineDB

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BAM!

A serverless framework that makes it quick and easy to get small applications up and running using Node.js and AWS

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Conclave

An open-source real-time collaborative text editor for the browser built from scratch in JavaScript

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Layr

A decentralized (p2p) cloud storage system built atop Kademlia DHT that enforces data integrity privacy and availability through proofs of retrievability redundancy and encryption with cryptocurrency-based incentive scheme

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turtleDB

A JavaScript framework and in-browser database adapter for building offline-first collaborative web apps

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Xorro P2P

A BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer file sharing network

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Workerholic

A lightweight and performant ruby background job processor

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AcornCache

A lightweight and configurable Ruby HTTP proxy caching library

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Open Source Watch

Open Source Watch gauges the activity of open-source projects on Github and finds out who the heroes of open-source are.

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Tracebin

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Allograph

Allograph is a framework for rapidly developing GraphQL servers. Co-created by Ting Chou and Rachel Minto, Allograph provides a flexible and convenient way to create a GraphQL server for your existing or new application, and it was designed to solve the most common problems encountered when creating a GraphQL server.

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CorvoStore

CorvoStore is an in-memory key-value store with complex data types in the value space and optional persistence. It was inspired by Redis, and built by Peter Reznick and Preeti Viswanathan.

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Ouroboros

Ouroboros is a peer-to-peer snake game that was created to experiment with fast-paced, real-time, direct peer-to-peer data exchange over the WebRTC data channel.

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Lodge

Lodge is an open-source self-managed logging framework for small, distributed applications. Lodge allows users to ship, transform, store, visualize, and monitor their logs.

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Plinko

Plinko.js is a real-time, multiplayer, physics-based game using only JavaScript and the basic features of a browser. The clients and authoritative server communicate over WebSockets, and the game employ snapshots and extrapolation to synchronize game state across nodes.

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Horus

Horus generates, stores, and visualizes telemetry data so you can always see the health of your application - in real time.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is an open-source, serverless framework for running browser-based load tests in the cloud.

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Aria

Aria is a tool which allows users to simplify the creation, configuration, and analysis of canary deployments.

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Able

Able is an npm package that allows you to quickly and easily deploy A/B tests to Cloudflare Pages applications using Cloudflare Edge Workers with the capability to launch an optional analytics dashboard to your custom domain powered by AWS and open source Umami software.

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Synapse

Synapse is an open-source tool to build, deploy, and monitor a GraphQL Gateway, enabling you to put your legacy APIs behind a single GraphQL endpoint.

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Bastion

Bastion is a customizable, open-source Backend-as-a-Service that gets deployed to the cloud with AWS, allowing a front-end developer to quickly set up a backend while maintaining control of the code and infrastructure.

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Chimera

Chimera is an open-source tool for performing automated canary deployments of containerized microservices, allowing software development teams to safely and easily deploy new versions of their code by taking advantage of the features provided by their existing service mesh.

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Sentinel

Sentinel is an open-source PaaS that provides built-in support for canary deployments.

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Waypost

Waypost is an open-source feature flagging platform specializing in A/B testing.

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Hypha

Hypha is an open-source observability framework for distributed systems.

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Artemis

Artemis is an open-source, serverless framework for scalable API load testing.

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Tailslide

Tailslide is an open-source feature flag framework for easier code deployment with automated failure protection.

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QMantis

Qmantis is an open-source, easy to set up observability solution for GraphQL APIs, enabling seamless analysis of slow requests, errors, resolver performance, and identification of backend bottlenecks.

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Kuri

Kuri is an open-source Dead-Letter Queue-as-a-Service for distributed applications deployed on an AWS infrastructure.

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Conifer

Conifer is an open-source framework that simplifies parallelizing Cypress tests on AWS infrastructure.

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Seymour

Seymour is an open-source, easy-to-configure active monitoring solution.

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Arroyo

Arroyo is a lightweight framework that granularly rehydrates logs kept in cloud storage.

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Fana

Fána is an open-source feature flagging platform specializing in audience targeting to enable developers to build confidence in their feature releases while testing in production.

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Bubble

Bubble is an open-source preview app solution for dynamic frontend applications.

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Cascade

Cascade is an open-source containerized application deployment solution.

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Armada

Armada is an open-source tool that automates the configuration and deployment of development environments in the cloud.

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Triage

Triage is an open source consumer proxy that enables parallelism and provides a dead letter store.

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Nexus

Nexus is an open-source framework that generates an instant GraphQL server from multiple data sources.

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Firefly

Firefly is an open-source observability framework for serverless functions.

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Constellation

Constellation is an open-source, serverless, framework that simplifies geographically distributed API load testing.

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Trellis

Trellis is an open-source Low-config CI/CD pipeline for serverless applications.

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Bard

Bard is an open source application for recording, replaying and analyzing how users interact with your website.

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Skopos

Skopos is an open-source API monitoring tool designed for testing multi-step API workflows in sequence and independent workflows in parallel.

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Capstone FAQ

Is there a location requirement to participate in Capstone?
What if I don't reside in the US?
Do I need to participate in this program to get a job?
How long is the program?
How is this different from any other bootcamp?
What is taught or covered in this program?
How is your Mastery-Based Learning courses + Capstone Mentoring different from the one on one mentoring in other programs?
I've been self learning for some time, can I skip your courses and jump directly into the Capstone program?
Can I pay the fee over time?
How can you make sure that I won't just disappear when I get a job?

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