interview-exercise

Tucows Interview Exercise

Instructions

• Please create a repo in which you will attempt the exercise.
• When you are done share repo link with HR
• In a file called setup.md please include instructions on how to run and test you application
• Please use GO (preferable) or Python for your solutions

Tasks

• Create a small web app that displays an HTML page containing a random quote, and random picture from the two APIs below.
• Create a back-end CLI tool to do the same
• How can you return an image on cli?
• Add an option to both the CLI, and web app so a category (“key” in the API) can optionally be specified for the quote. (sane/working default if not specified)
• Add an option to both the CLI, and web app to allow specifying a grayscale image
• Make it resilient to one or both providers being unavailable
• Provide unit tests
• Provide any documentation you think might be helpful
• Feel free to add anythng that you think might be useful

APIs to be Used

• http://forismatic.com/en/api/
• https://picsum.photos/