Building a Python backend that runs on a cron schedule. This backend was connected with the Alpha Vantage stock market API, where it pulled data from a list of relevant companies, cleaned/reformatted the data, performed thousands of calculations to determine the custom stock market index data over a range of days, then updated the data in a MongoDB database. The backend was kept as separate as possible from the NextJS application and the JSON outputs kept to a minimum in order to ensure optimal performance on the frontend