Announcing Crystal+LavinMQ hackathon (#849)

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+title: "Let's hack together at OpenSource Global Hack Week!"
+author: mverzilli
+summary: "Join the Crystal Core Team and our friends at 84codes at Major League Hacking OpenSource Global Hack Week 2024, starting on October 4th."
+categories: community
+tags: [talk, hackathon, foss, beginner-friendly]
+---
+
+It's an established fact that we in the Crystal language community are kind of obsessed with high-performance software.
+While Crystal does a pretty good job of helping you write extremely fast applications which run on minimal resources,
+there's limits to the scalability that any language can let you reach when it comes to distributed systems.
+At some point (probably quite early indeed), you need to turn to your system's architecture design to ensure you can
+sustain high and unpredictable loads.
+
+One of the foundational architectural Lego blocks to address this kind of challenge is the good ol' queue. Using queues you can
+make your applications resilient to sudden excesses in demand, impose order, maximize parallelism given your resource availability,
+develop self-healing mechanisms, and a long list of other superpowers.
+
+Needless to say, building a fast, reliable, secure and feature rich queue system is Hard(TM). Luckily, us crystallers are in fantastic
+hands in that regard: [LavinMQ](https://lavinmq.com/) is a world class message queuing system that not only supports writing your queue publishers and consumers
+in Crystal, but it is *built in Crystal* itself.
+
+That's why we couldn't be more thrilled to share that, together with the LavinMQ team, [we will be co-running a Crystal+LavinMQ challenge](https://lavinmq.com/blog/lavinmq-crystal-hackathon)
+in the context of the [Major League Hacking OpenSource Global Hack Week 2024](https://events.mlh.io/events/11512). This will be a super fun opportunity to learn how to
+build robust message queueing architectures without leaving the comforts of Crystal <3. 
+
+Interested to join? Check out [LavinMQ's announcement post](https://lavinmq.com/blog/lavinmq-crystal-hackathon) to find all the details. See you there!
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