Questions to ask myself when presenting

• What did I build?
• Why did I structure it this way?
• Why this database?
• What assumptions did I make?
• What are the failure cases?
• What did I test?
• What doesn't it handle yet?
• What would I do next?

“What I built”
“The system has three main pieces…”

“Key decisions”
“I chose PostgreSQL because…”

“Important trade-off”
“The alternative would have been X, but…”

“What I deliberately didn't do”
“Given the 90-minute constraint, I didn't implement X…”

“Production concerns”
“If this were going into production, I'd next address…”