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Intermediate12 weeks
Backend Development
Design the systems behind real products.
Servers, databases, and APIs. You'll build a REST and a GraphQL service, model real data, and deploy them to a managed cloud.
What you'll learn
- HTTP, REST, and request/response
- Authentication and authorization
- Relational data modeling with Postgres
- Caching, queues, and background jobs
- Testing and observability
- Deploying to a managed platform
You'll leave able to
- Design and ship a production REST API
- Model real-world data in Postgres
- Reason about scaling and reliability