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Task description: We need to design a web-application that: - Reads the translations displayed on the frontend from a remote API (let's call it aem), - Retrieves some business data from a remote API (let's call it backend-data) Considerations: 'aem' backend is known to be unstable, but translations are very important Tasks: - Suggest application design - Suggest technologies (developers have experience with React for frontend, Spring / Spring-boot for backend but if there's a strong argument for another technology, let's present it) - Suggest branching model in our git repository - Suggest release process - Suggest cloud platform where we could host such application
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Principal Architect

Interviewed at DHL

3.8
Jul 3, 2025

Task description: We need to design a web-application that: - Reads the translations displayed on the frontend from a remote API (let's call it aem), - Retrieves some business data from a remote API (let's call it backend-data) Considerations: 'aem' backend is known to be unstable, but translations are very important Tasks: - Suggest application design - Suggest technologies (developers have experience with React for frontend, Spring / Spring-boot for backend but if there's a strong argument for another technology, let's present it) - Suggest branching model in our git repository - Suggest release process - Suggest cloud platform where we could host such application

Task description: We need to design a web-application that: - Reads the translations displayed on the frontend from a remote API (let's call it aem), - Retrieves some business data from a remote API (let's call it backend-data) Considerations: 'aem' backend is known to be unstable, but translations are very important Tasks: - Suggest application design - Suggest technologies (developers have experience with React for frontend, Spring / Spring-boot for backend but if there's a strong argument for another technology, let's present it) - Suggest branching model in our git repository - Suggest release process - Suggest cloud platform where we could host such application
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Principal Architect

Interviewed at DHL

3.8
Jul 3, 2025

Task description: We need to design a web-application that: - Reads the translations displayed on the frontend from a remote API (let's call it aem), - Retrieves some business data from a remote API (let's call it backend-data) Considerations: 'aem' backend is known to be unstable, but translations are very important Tasks: - Suggest application design - Suggest technologies (developers have experience with React for frontend, Spring / Spring-boot for backend but if there's a strong argument for another technology, let's present it) - Suggest branching model in our git repository - Suggest release process - Suggest cloud platform where we could host such application

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