Judge: Mike DiPetrillo.

Welcome to the VMware blockchain hack-a-thon. During this hack-a-thon we will be exploring powerful use cases for blockchain technologies. The 4 main things that blockchain is good at is data distribution, asset tracking, asset transfer, and verification of information (verifiable claims). Those 4 main pillars of use cases can be used independently or you can combine them into a larger solution such as supply chain. Use your creativity and the power of distributed trust that blockchain provides to build something that could revolutionize an industry.

Judge: Boskey Savla

Pivotal Container Service (PKS) integrates a Kubernetes stack on top an existing SDDC solution. VI admins can self-service access to development teams working on building cloud-native applications. PKS integrates with vRealize LogInsight, Wavefront and vRealize Operations. Hack away by developing interesting solutions,. Automate Install process via Chef/Puppet/Ansible. Or build an Interesting dashboards for monitoring the stack in Wavefront, LogInsight or vRealize Operations

Judge: Valentina Alaria

Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration tool. It gives developers a simple API to talk to deploy applications, define scale limits, no. of instances needed and how to publish services via simple YAML file descriptions. Developers can build creative applications using micro-services architecture and move from build to deploy and publish very quickly. Bring your creative hats on and use VMware Kubernetes Engine to build a new application or convert an existing one! See sample apps at https://github.com/kubernetes/examples for inspiration.

Judges: Berndt Jung, Mark Peek

Dispatch is an open source serverless framework targeted towards enterprise environments. Serverless technologies abstract the infrastructure from the developer allowing the develop to focus on business logic and value. Dispatch can be installed on just about any Kubernetes and is available at http://dispatchframework.io. See guides for installing on minikube, GKE or EKS. Show us what can you build when you combine functions, events, API endpoints and services via Dispatch.

Judge: Kyle Ruddy

PowerShell is a task-based command-line shell and scripting language. It is designed specifically for system administrators and power-users, to rapidly automate the administration of multiple operating systems (Linux, macOS, Unix, and Windows), applications that run on those operating systems, and a wealth of other resources from on-premises datacenters to cloud based resources.

This theme is for those hackathon attendees that want to use PowerShell to automate their team to success!

Judge: Steve Trefethen

Python is a popular programming language with a large focus on code readability. Python can be used on most operating systems for any number of things, including programming against any number of things already in your datacenter or cloud-based environment!

Judges: Bryan Wood, Samir Kadoo