Magic Sandbox
Interactive training platform for software engineers to learn kubernetes hands-on.
| Date | Investors | Amount | Round |
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| - | investor investor investor | €0.0 | round |
N/A | Seed | ||
| Total Funding | 000k | ||
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Magic Sandbox, legally known as Magic Sandbox Limited, was an educational software company founded in 2018 by Jord van den Hooff, a product designer, and Mislav Stipetic, a full-stack engineer. The company, which was headquartered in London, United Kingdom, specialized in providing an interactive training platform for software engineers to learn Kubernetes. However, the company is now listed as closed, having gone into liquidation on January 12, 2021.
The core offering of Magic Sandbox was a hands-on, browser-based learning environment that simulated enterprise-level cloud infrastructure. This allowed developers to gain practical experience with Kubernetes, a popular container orchestration system, without the risk of impacting live production systems. The platform provided interactive tutorials where users could run and monitor deployments, pods, and services, replicating the high-scale infrastructures used by major tech companies. The aim was to equip software engineers with skills in scalable Kubernetes infrastructure before they worked on real-world deployments.
The technology behind the platform included custom Kubernetes operators for managing student clusters, a real-time dashboard built with React and WebSockets, a content authoring system with live preview capabilities, and infrastructure automation using Terraform. The company also developed CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment. Prior to its closure, Magic Sandbox had raised a total of $105,000 in funding through an accelerator/incubator round on August 9, 2018. One of the founders, acting as CTO, built and led a team of 8 engineers and personally trained hundreds of engineers through 6-day bootcamps. The platform was utilized by hundreds of engineers to master Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies.
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