Backend Engineering Fundamentals
Learn backend engineering fundamentals including HTTP, REST APIs, authentication, databases and deployment concepts.
- Duration
- 20 hours
- Modules
- 2
- Lessons
- 3
- Deliverable
- Backend Engineering Foundations Notes
Outcomes
HTTP Fundamentals
Understand the request and response model that powers the web.
REST APIs
Design resource-oriented API contracts with predictable behavior.
Ready when you are
Start with HTTP Overview
Begin at the first lesson, then move through each module in sequence.
Course modules
Work through each module in order, moving from concepts into practical checkpoints.
- Module 1
HTTP Fundamentals
Understand the request and response model that powers the web.
2 lessons
- Lesson 1Lesson
HTTP Overview
Understand the request and response model that powers backend engineering.
15 min
20 min
- Module 2
REST APIs
Design resource-oriented API contracts with predictable behavior.
1 lessons
- Lesson 1Lesson
REST Introduction
Introduction to resource-oriented API design with predictable HTTP behavior.
25 min