> 1. Learn the basics of how to architect a small distributed system that is fault tolerant, resilient and reliable. You can'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.

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/kubernetes

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2015/11/containerizi...