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Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Re: Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Post by julien421 »

mbastian wrote: post #12

Site is still throwing 502 errors, maybe you're running in dev mode? (just joking :)) Question, what's the rationale behind the name? Just curious.

lol :) The school is named after Betty Holberton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton

Re: Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Post by arenaninja »

I saw a few pages but now I'm also getting 502s. I'm curious about their 'Full Stack' claim, since they don't appear to define 'Full Stack' (which they should), and they don't pick a stack (assuming this is for web dev full stack? Even that was vague)

Re: Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Post by rudyrigot »

arenaninja wrote: post #15

I saw a few pages but now I'm also getting 502s. I'm curious about their 'Full Stack' claim, since they don't appear to define 'Full Stack' (which they should), and they don't pick a stack (assuming this is for web dev full stack? Even that was vague)

We think Full Stack not in the web stack. But more of "every layer of a system" - from the servers, infra, to the front end of an app.

Re: Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Post by rudyrigot »

stevepm wrote: post #10
julien421 wrote: post #4

Hello everyone! I am one of the three co-founders, please LMK if you have any question!

Hi, I just wanted to let you know about a typo here: https://www.holbertonschool.com/education#projects Valerie Tching, Senior Sfotware Engineer at LinkedIn.

Thanks stevepm! Fixed!

Re: Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Post by arenaninja »

rudyrigot wrote: post #17
arenaninja wrote: post #15

I saw a few pages but now I'm also getting 502s. I'm curious about their 'Full Stack' claim, since they don't appear to define 'Full Stack' (which they should), and they don't pick a stack (assuming this is for web dev full stack? Even that was vague)

We think Full Stack not in the web stack. But more of "every layer of a system" - from the servers, infra, to the front end of an app.

Interesting. There was a discussion here on HN a few weeks back where nobody could agree on a definition of "Full Stack", which is why I think it'd be better to dedicate some time to more fully fleshing out/illustrating what YOU mean by it, so that both potential students and potential companies looking to hire your students are able to interpret it in the way you intend

EDIT: Found the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10182936

Re: Holberton School – a project-based alternative to college for software engineers

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Post by sylvainkalache »

julien421 wrote: post #16
wasd wrote: post #9

Just a heads up to any holberton school developers, the site is throwing 502s on every page.

Thanks wasd, servers are overloaded, we were not expected so much traffic. We are scaling now.

We were not expecting so much traffic, that's great! I scaled up our infrastructure and we are back in business :)
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