In a blog post, AWS principal advocate Martin Beeby said AWS BugBust was taking the concept of a bug bash “to a new level” by allowing developers to create and manage private events that effectively “gamify the process of finding and fixing bugs in your software.” “It’s difficult to get time from skilled developers to quickly perform effective code reviews since they’re busy building, innovating, and pushing out deployments,” Sivasubramanian said. “Today, we are excited to announce an entirely new approach to help developers improve code quality, eliminate bugs, and boost application performance while saving millions of dollars in application resource costs.” Beeby noted that there would be a global leaderboard that will be updated each time a developer fixes a bug and wins points. Any developer that makes it to 100 points will win an AWS BugBust T-shirt, and those who reach 2,000 points will win an AWS BugBust Varsity Jacket. “The AWS BugBust Challenge will be a fun and educative addition to our curriculum to help our students become more confident in their ability to use the Python programming language and take their IT careers to the next level,” said Antonio Delgado, Dean of Engineering, Technology and Design at Miami Dade College. “We plan to use AWS BugBust every semester as a platform for our students to showcase and enhance their coding skills, all while being part of an exciting bug-bashing event.”
