Basic Backend Developer Interview

Dear candidate, please follow this readme and solve all questions.

Before you can start, you should prepare your development environment.

This test requires:

• access to the internet
• your favourite IDE
• (PHP) working dev environment with PHP 7 and symfony 3.x
• (Node) working dev environment with Node.js LTS
• database (MongoDB, Postgres, MySQL)
• nginx or alternative simple dev web server

Good luck!

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Test tasks:

NOTE: You are free to use any framework you wish. Bonus points for an explanation of your choice.

1. Specify a default controller

• for route /
• with a proper json return {"hello":"world!"}

2. Use the api.nasa.gov

• the API-KEY is N7LkblDsc5aen05FJqBQ8wU4qSdmsftwJagVK7UD
• documentation: https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#neows-feed

3. Write a command

• to request the data from the last 3 days from nasa api
• response contains count of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs)
• persist the values in your DB
• Define the model as follows:
  • date
  • reference (neo_reference_id)
  • name
  • speed (kilometers_per_hour)
  • is hazardous (is_potentially_hazardous_asteroid)

4. Create a route /neo/hazardous

• display all DB entries which contain potentially hazardous asteroids
• format JSON

5. Create a route /neo/fastest?hazardous=(true|false)

• analyze all data
• calculate and return the model of the fastest asteroid
• with a hazardous parameter, where true means is hazardous
• default hazardous value is false
• format JSON

6. Create a route /neo/best-year?hazardous=(true|false)

• analyze all data
• calculate and return a year with most asteroids
• with a hazardous parameter, where true means is hazardous
• default hazardous value is false
• format JSON

7. Create a route /neo/best-month?hazardous=(true|false)

• analyze all data
• calculate and return a month with most asteroids (not a month in a year)
• with a hazardous parameter, where true means is hazardous
• default hazardous value is false
• format JSON

Additional Instructions

• Fork this repository
• Tests are not optional
• (PHP) Symfony is the expected framework
• After you're done, provide us the link to your repository.
• Leave comments where you were not sure how to properly proceed.
• Implementations without a README will be automatically rejected.

Bonus Points

• Clean code!
• Knowledge of application flow.
• Knowledge of modern best practices/coding patterns.
• Componential thinking.
• Knowledge of Docker.
• Usage of MongoDB as persistance storage.