&gt; 1. Learn the basics of how to architect a small distributed system that is fault tolerant, resilient and reliable. You can&#x27;t learn it all in 11 days, but man you can make a big dent and it is to me one of the most fun and challenging problems to solve.<p>There was a great tutorial for something like this that google published last month using kubernetes and docker that involves setting up several minecraft servers in a cluster.  Would be a great into to docker&#x2F;kubernetes<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;containerizing-in-the-real-world-of-Minecraft.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;containerizi...</a>