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Engineering · Intermediate

Full-Stack Developer → Production Engineer

A practical, from-first-principles course for turning full-stack applications into secure, observable, testable and scalable production systems.

8 chapters32 pages

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11. Production MindsetLearn how production systems differ from tutorial projects and how to reason about reliability, ownership, environments and failure.Open chapter

3 lessons

What Changes in Production?Define Requirements, SLOs & Budgets Design a Production Architecture

22. APIs & Backend DesignDesign APIs that are predictable, secure, versionable and maintainable as a product grows.Open chapter

3 lessons

Configuration, Environments & Secrets Error Handling & Failure Boundaries API Contracts, Validation & Versioning

33. Data & PersistenceModel data, transactions, migrations, caching and database performance for real workloads.Open chapter

3 lessons

Database Modeling for Real Systems Transactions, Concurrency & Idempotency Migrations, Backups & Recovery

44. Authentication & SecurityBuild identity, authorization, secrets, rate limits and application security into the architecture.Open chapter

3 lessons

Authentication & Session Architecture RBAC, ABAC & Resource Authorization Input Security, Rate Limits & Abuse

55. Distributed SystemsIntroduce queues, background jobs, events, WebSockets and eventual consistency.Open chapter

3 lessons

Queues & Background Jobs Event-Driven Architecture WebSockets & Real-Time Features

66. Reliability & ObservabilityMake failures visible and systems diagnosable with logs, metrics, traces, health checks and recovery.Open chapter

3 lessons

Distributed Consistency & Retries Logs, Metrics & Traces Health Checks, Readiness & Graceful Shutdown

77. Testing, Docker & CI/CDAutomate quality and repeatable delivery from local development through production.Open chapter

3 lessons

Testing Strategy for Production Docker & Reproducible Environments CI/CD, Releases & Rollbacks

88. Scaling & OperationsOptimize, scale, respond to incidents and operate production systems with confidence.Open chapter

3 lessons

Performance, Capacity & Database Optimization Incident Response & Postmortems Production Readiness & Scaling