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Train your engineering
skills like a pro athlete

Recreate tools like Git, Redis, and SQLite from scratch. Practice debugging and refactoring code under constraints. Become the engineer others trust with their hardest problems.
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These fine folks believe in the CodeCrafters approach.
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Mike Krieger
Co-founder/CTO, Instagram

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Arash Ferdowsi
Co-founder/CTO, Dropbox

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JJ Kasper
Maintainer of Next.js

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Jitendra Vaidya
Co-founder, PlanetScale

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Co-Founder, Supabase

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Hear it from our members

Engineers at top teams love The CodeCrafters Way™
The Redis challenge was extremely fun. I ended up having to read Redis protocol specification doc pretty carefully in its entirety! The result felt like lightly-guided independent study, if that makes sense. (Which, again, was lots of fun)
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Charles Guo
Scala Team at Stripe
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I'm learning about how Redis works under the hood, system calls, socket programming in Python; something I've never done before
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Akshata Mohan
Senior Data Scientist at Cloudflare
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My favorite way to master a language.
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Pranjal Paliwal
Winner of HackAtom
I’ve started the SQLite challenge, enjoying it a lot so far. Just the right level of guidance, helpful yet gives you a lot of freedom to explore and learn for yourself.
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Cindy Wu
Participant at Recurse Center
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In a perfect world, job interviews ask for assignments like CodeCrafters instead of Leetcode. The best way to refresh your programming language skills and learn something new about Redis, Git, SQLite internals.
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Vladislav Ten
SWE at Microsoft
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The challenge helped me dive into its internals, through *actual* practice. Super fun.
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Kang Ming Tay
Software Engineer at Supabase
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I was really impressed that they support Haskell, and will probably usethis to learn Rust! The git-based workflow is :chefkiss:
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Jonathan Lorimer
Lead SWE at Mercury Bank
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Found out from a colleague. It has you build your own version of things like Git and SQLite from scratch. A cool way to build a stronger mental model of how those tools work.
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Beyang Liu
CTO at SourceGraph
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Projects that go way
beyond the basics

Build software deeper than simple CRUD apps. Take on projects involving storage engines, protocols, concurrency and performance.

Become the engineer who's comfortable with complexity.
I'm learning about how Redis works under the hood, system calls, socket programming in Python; something I've never done before
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Akshata Mohan
Senior Data Scientist at Cloudflare
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Be in the company of
prolific engineers

See how contributors to projects like Docker and Rails refactor, how engineers who build large-scale systems debug, and how CTOs of developer platforms make architectural decisions.

Improve your taste by observing other great engineers.
The Redis challenge was extremely fun. I ended up having to read Redis protocol specification doc pretty carefully in its entirety! The result felt like lightly-guided independent study, if that makes sense. (Which, again, was lots of fun)
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Charles Guo
Scala Team at Stripe
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Use your favourite
tools to code. No limits.

Don't be limited by web-based editors. Code in your usual IDE, with your preferred customisations. Push code with Git and get instant feedback. Share your work on GitHub.

CodeCrafters is designed for pros.
There are few sites I like as much that have a step by step guide. The real-time feedback is so good, it's creepy!
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Ananthalakshmi Sankar
Automation Engineer at Apple
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The world's best got better by doing.

Hear from Pete Koomen, co-founder & CTO of Optimizely, on how he learns.