In September 2020, participants from Humanitec and Polar Squad collaborated in a hackathon to develop a resource driver for the Humanitec platform, aiming to enhance its internal developer platform capabilities by facilitating seamless integration with external infrastructure. The event underscored the challenge of provisioning resources like AWS ElastiCache for Redis, highlighting complexities such as configuration errors and limited technical knowledge, which delayed the process. Despite these hurdles, the team succeeded in creating a driver capable of provisioning an ElastiCache instance, although the deployment of the associated application faced a timeout issue. Key takeaways included the importance of preplanning and alignment on project scope, as well as the need to improve the developer experience by addressing API feedback deficiencies and documenting potential pitfalls for future users. The hackathon revealed areas for improvement in Humanitec's platform, particularly in providing better feedback and resources to assist developers in overcoming external provider inconsistencies.