This month WeMakeDevs is bringing two very big opportunities for developers who want to learn modern infrastructure skills, build creative projects, and participate in community driven events:
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Pirates of the Coral-bean Hackathon: $10,000 in treasures!
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The Workflow Orchestration Challenge: $4,000 up for grabs!
Pirates Of The Coral-bean Hackathon ($10,000)
The Pirates Of The Coral-bean Hackathon will bring builders into the world of AI agents powered by Coral. The core idea behind Coral is extremely powerful and instead of writing endless code between APIs, databases, files, and external services, Coral allows developers to query everything as SQL.
Developers can join data across multiple systems using a single query interface. For AI agents, that changes the entire workflow.
Why AI Agents Need Better Data Infrastructure
Most AI agents today depend on API wrappers, MCP servers, custom integrations, CLI tools, and large JSON responses. As more tools get added, systems become harder to maintain and more expensive to run.
Every new data source brings problems like authentication, pagination, schema handling, rate limits, and extra context usage. Coral removes most of this complexity by letting agents query everything through a single SQL interface and handling the joins internally.
Query Anything As SQL
Coral allows APIs, databases, and files to behave like SQL tables.
That means developers can query across tools like GitHub, Slack, Datadog, PagerDuty, Notion, Linear, Intercom, Google services, and local files.
About The Hackathon
The hackathon is designed for developers who want to explore how modern AI agents can work across multiple tools, APIs, databases, and files using a unified SQL-based workflow powered by Coral.
Hackathon Tracks
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Enterprise Agents: Participants can build agents that retrieve data across multiple sources using Coral and solve a real problem for an organisation.
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Personal Agents: The second track focuses on personal productivity agents by connecting your everyday tools and then Coral handles everything.
$10,000 In Treasures: Rewards For Every Team Member
Pirates of the Coral-bean Hackathon includes more than $10,000 in prizes and bounties. There is one winning crew per track and each crew can have up to four members, and every teammate gets their own prize.
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Every team member of the top enterprise agent team wins an Apple MacBook Neo.
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Every team member of the top personal agent team wins an Apple iPad.
Special Bounties
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Claude Max Vouchers For 50 Best Showcases (Worth $5000): Share your project journey in the Coral Discord and on social media for a chance to win 1-month Claude Max vouchers and get featured on Kunal Kushwaha's YouTube channel (870K+ subscribers).
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Build New Source Integrations (Worth $100): Create custom integrations for unsupported platforms and win rewards if your source gets accepted by the Coral team.
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Technical Guides (Worth $100): Publish step-by-step blogs explaining your Coral projects for a chance to win Keychron mechanical keyboards.
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Early Bird Swag: Register early and share the hackathon on LinkedIn or X tagging Coral for a chance to win exclusive swag boxes.
The Workflow Orchestration Challenge ($4,000)
If you've spent any time building real-world applications, you already know that writing code is rarely the hard part. The challenge shows up when your app needs to talk to three different APIs, trigger a database update, notify a Slack channel, and kick off a deployment pipeline - all in the right order, reliably, every single time. That's where things start to get messy.
Workflow orchestration exists to address exactly this kind of complexity, giving developers a structured way to automate tasks, connect services, and keep everything running without constantly firefighting.
Solve Orchestration Problems Using Kestra
Kestra is an open-source workflow orchestration platform built around a simple idea that developers should be able to define and manage complex workflows without fighting their tooling. Workflows are written in YAML, which means there's no proprietary language to learn and no steep learning curve to get past before you can actually be productive.
What makes Kestra genuinely useful is how well it scales with real-world needs. It works across APIs, cloud services, databases, and microservices, so whether you're wiring up a single data pipeline or managing hundreds of production workflows, you're working with the same straightforward approach throughout. It's built to be developer-friendly without sacrificing the reliability that production environments actually demand.
Workflow Orchestration Challenge And Why You Should Take It?
The Workflow Orchestration Challenge is a beginner-friendly learning event where developers get hands-on with workflow orchestration, covering how modern systems coordinate APIs, jobs, pipelines, services, and cloud workflows in production.
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The challenge focuses on practical concepts that directly apply to backend engineering, DevOps, automation, and platform engineering roles.
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Participants will receive an official Kestra certification upon completing the course and exam, which they can showcase on LinkedIn and resumes.
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Prizes worth $4,000 give participants the chance to win premium tech prizes through rolling draws.
Steps To Take Part In The Challenge
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Read all the relevant information about the challenge on the event page.
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Join Kestra Academy and sign up for the Kestra Fundamentals Course.
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Get certified by finishing the course material and pass the certification exam to earn your official credential. Add the certificate to the certification section on your LinkedIn profile.
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Share on social media about what you learned in the course using #KestraAcademy.
The two events barely overlap. The Workflow Orchestration Challenge runs May 4–17 and the hackathon runs May 25–31, so you can finish the Kestra certification first and still have a full week to build your Coral agent.
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