well with 3 attempts one went over and kept working until he got a solution (took a while), another stopped at around 2 hours to submit and asked for feedback,

well with 3 attempts one went over and kept working until he got a solution (took a while), another stopped at around 2 hours to submit and asked for feedback, 3rd finished in time and is a badass. You've be surprised. Maybe I expect too much, but the assignment is essentially network aware k/v store with a single get command and set command. Extremely poor mans redis and a step up from an echo server but for some people doing anything over a network that isn't HTTP breaks them. Thanks for website, my consulting/blog site that pretty much fell into disrepair after taking architect position at a startup.