Day 55 drills
Paper first. Scoping your capstone before you design it.
D1 (your system: one sentence on what it does, one on why you care; if you cannot say why, pick another):
D2 (scope: three things you ARE building, three you are explicitly NOT building now):
D3 (the interesting slice: the one feature built end to end, and the number you predict about it):
D4 (scale: rough reads/s, writes/s, storage at a plausible real scale, and whether any number changes the design):
D5 (the two hard decisions in your design, each with its real tradeoff):