#SeasonsOfServerless Solution 1: Developing "The Perfect Holiday Turkey"
Tags: serverless, azure, javascript, webdev
Published: 2020-11-30 17:00:10

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title: #SeasonsOfServerless Solution 1: Developing "The Perfect Holiday Turkey"
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description:  Welcome to Week 2 of #SeasonsOfServerless - a fun festive challenge for developers worldwide. Learn more at https://aka.ms/SeasonsOfServerless!
tags: serverless, azure, javascript, webdev
series: "#SeasonsOfServerless 2020"
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🚨 **[🌟🌟🌟 Our new challenge is LIVE! 🌟🌟🌟](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless#welcome-to-the-seasons-of-serverless)** 🚨

> This article is part of [#SeasonsOfServerless](https://aka.ms/SeasonsOfServerless). 

> Each week we will publish a challenge co-created by [Azure Advocates](https://dev.to/azure) with some amazing [Student Ambassadors](https://studentambassadors.microsoft.com/) around the world. Discover popular festive recipes and learn how Microsoft Azure empowers you to do more with [Serverless Functions](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/?WT.mc_id=academic-10922-cxa)!  🍽 😍.

> Explore our serverless [Resources](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/RESOURCES.md) here and learn how you can contribute solutions [here](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).

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### 🍽 | Seasons Of Serverless

It's been just a week since we kicked off our #SeasonsOfServerless developer challenge series and we're psyched to see how much fun you are all having with this festive theme. Want to uncover the origin story and review the participation guidelines? Start with this post below!

{% link https://dev.to/azure/azure-advocates-seasons-of-serverless-join-our-virtual-festive-potluck-53m6 %}

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### 🦃 | The Perfect Holiday Turkey

Last week, we launched our first challenge - created by our North American chefs just in time for the Thanksgiving holidays! The goal: Help chefs brine [The Perfect Holiday Turkey](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/Nov-23-2020.md)

From the [project brief](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/Nov-23-2020.md#your-challenge-)

> _Convert this brine equation and cook time to an automated process so that when you input a turkey's weight, you will be given the amount of water, sugar, salt, and spices to add and a recommendation on how long to cook it ......_

> _Our chefs recommend trying an Azure Function to generate your recipe ..._


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### 👨🏼‍🍳 | Our Chefs Weigh in!

Want to learn how our intrepid chefs solved this conundrum? First, check out their video walkthrough of their solutions right here!

{% youtube ttAHXJZHPSs %}

Then dive into their code repos and explore the solutions on your own. 

 * [7-Days-of-Serverless: Day 1](https://github.com/ericyangyu/7-Days-of-Serverless-2020/tree/master/day1) / from [Eric Yang Yu](https://github.com/ericyangyu)
 * [The Perfect Turkey Brine](https://github.com/darrendbutler/perfect-turkey-brine) / from [Darren Butler](https://github.com/darrendbutler) 

They used Python for their solutions - if you port this to a different language of your choosing, just leave us a [comment](#comment) and share your code! We'd love to see it! 🎉

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### 🏆 | Thanks for the submissions!

They setup a great challenge and we are so excited to see all the submissions that came in from the developer community!! 

Want to learn how others solved the challenge, potentially with a different programming language?

**[Check out our Contributors Hall Of Fame for Week 1!](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.md#week-one)**

![Contributors Hall of Fame Banner Image](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/e62b8498320539e1cbcf66d2a98ce88bf36896ef9823c5e66b7b048fcb47bbcc/68747470733a2f2f692e706f7374696d672e63632f44774867776d6a6e2f4a6176612d5363726970742e6a7067)

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### 🙋🏼‍♀️ | It's not too late to join us!

🚨 **[🌟🌟🌟 Our new challenge is LIVE! 🌟🌟🌟](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless#welcome-to-the-seasons-of-serverless)** 🚨

> This article is part of [#SeasonsOfServerless](https://aka.ms/SeasonsOfServerless). 

> Each week we will publish a challenge co-created by [Azure Advocates](https://dev.to/azure) with some amazing [Student Ambassadors](https://studentambassadors.microsoft.com/) around the world. Discover popular festive recipes and learn how Microsoft Azure empowers you to do more with [Serverless Functions](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/?WT.mc_id=academic-10922-cxa)!  🍽 😍.

> Explore our serverless [Resources](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/RESOURCES.md) here and learn how you can contribute solutions [here](https://github.com/microsoft/Seasons-of-Serverless/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).