flagship10–14 weeks~10h mentor timeLive defensebrief by Meridian Retail Group
Multi-Tenant Search Platform
A twelve-week build: sharded index, tenant isolation, relevance tuning and a live defense in front of two mentors.
By Demo Academy
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The brief
A twelve-week build: sharded index, tenant isolation, relevance tuning and a live defense in front of two mentors. The brief is deliberately incomplete — you make and justify the tradeoffs.
Deliberately ambiguous — you make and justify the tradeoffs. Your work is checked against a held-out evaluation you can't see in advance.
Milestones & mentor checkpoints
1Architecture & tenancy modelweek 2mentor review
2Indexing pipelineweek 5mentor review
3Relevance & evaluationweek 8mentor review
4Operations & defense prepweek 11mentor review
How you're graded
Systems design
30% weight
Correctness
25% weight
Operational readiness
25% weight
Defense
20% weight