Create backend code project scaffolding

Author: etiennestuder

.gitattributes

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+#
+# https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-line-endings/
+#
+# Linux start script should use lf
+/gradlew        text eol=lf
+
+# These are Windows script files and should use crlf
+*.bat           text eol=crlf
+

.github/dependabot.yml

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+version: 2
+registries:
+  gradle-plugin-portal:
+    type: maven-repository
+    url: https://plugins.gradle.org/m2
+    username: dummy # Required by dependabot
+    password: dummy # Required by dependabot
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "gradle"
+    directory: "/"
+    registries:
+      - gradle-plugin-portal
+    schedule:
+      interval: "daily"
+      time: "02:00"
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "daily"
+      time: "02:00"
+      

.gitignore

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+# Gradle and IDEA folders
+.idea/
+.gradle/
+build/
+
+# Compiled class file
+*.class
+
+# Log file
+*.log
+
+# BlueJ files
+*.ctxt
+
+# Mobile Tools for Java (J2ME)
+.mtj.tmp/
+
+# Package Files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.nar
+*.ear
+*.zip
+*.tar.gz
+*.rar
+
+# virtual machine crash logs, see http://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_hotspot.xml
+hs_err_pid*
+replay_pid*

README.md

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+# Develocity Backend Code Project
+
+Congratulations on advancing to the code project for a Backend Engineer position on the Develocity team!
+
+This project aims to allow you to demonstrate your expertise and skills using an industry-standard language such as `Java` or `Kotlin`, a modern microservice library that embraces asynchronous programming as provided by `Armeria`, one or more testing frameworks of your choice, and the widely-adopted build tool `Gradle`.
+
+## Installation instructions
+
+You are already provided with a scaffold, including a Gradle build to assemble and run a HTTP server.
+
+From the root of this project, start the minimal server and navigate to [http://localhost:5555/](http://localhost:5555/):
+
+`./gradlew :server:start`
+
+## Implementation instructions
+
+Follow the detailed instructions in the PDF that have been provided to you via email.
+
+## Validation instructions
+
+Ensure the server is assembled and the automated test suites executed when running the following command:
+
+`./gradlew :server:build`
+
+## Evaluation criteria
+
+The following criteria will play into the evaluation of your submission:
+
+- Overall architecture and solution structure
+- Code organization, readability, and easiness to follow
+- Utilization of the applied programming language and language version
+- Data mapping and transformation
+- Error and edge case handling
+- Test coverage
+
+## Reasoning
+
+### Language, libraries, and testing frameworks
+
+_Please include the reasoning about the choice of language, language version, libraries, and testing frameworks._
+
+### Other choices and considered alternatives
+
+_Please include the reasoning about other choices you made and the alternatives you considered._
+
+### Future improvements (if you had more time)
+
+_Optional. For you to fill._
+
+## Checklist
+
+- [ ] Instructions have been followed closely
+- [ ] All given advice has been read carefully and applied
+- [ ] Evaluation criteria have been considered
+- [ ] Implementation can be validated for correctness using the Gradle command listed above
+- [ ] Decisions are described in the README file
+- [ ] Zip-file is created without any build artifacts in it and uploaded to Gradle

gradle.properties

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+# enable these performance features unless you have specific reasons not to
+org.gradle.vfs.watch=true
+org.gradle.daemon=true
+org.gradle.caching=true
+org.gradle.parallel=true
+org.gradle.jvmargs=-Duser.language=en -Duser.country=US -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Xmx512m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar

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+distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+distributionPath=wrapper/dists
+distributionSha256Sum=72f44c9f8ebcb1af43838f45ee5c4aa9c5444898b3468ab3f4af7b6076c5bc3f
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.2.1-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
+zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
+zipStorePath=wrapper/dists