The InfluxData team is hosting a month-long hackathon starting on May 5, where developers can win up to $8,000 in prizes and swag by building projects using InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise. The hackathon aims to encourage the use of new features such as the Processing Engine, which provides an embedded Python VM for collecting, processing, enriching, and taking action on data from within InfluxDB. Additionally, the team is highlighting various server modes in the Enterprise edition, including Ingest, Query, Compact, Process, and All, which provide different levels of performance optimization and flexibility. The hackathon also features a new cache system for optimizing query performance, including the Latest Value Cache (LVC) and Distinct Value Cache (DVC). Participants can find inspiration for projects by looking at previous hackathons, where InfluxData built plugins such as Iceberg table export, natural language to SQL query, data generator, edge to cloud data replication, and time series forecasting and visualization plugin. The hackathon has specific rules, including submission deadlines, eligibility criteria, and judging criteria, which can be found on the registration page at influxdata.com/influxdb-3-hackathon-2025.