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Backend Engineering
A cohort track for building services you can run: clean APIs, trustworthy data, auth, testing, and reliability fundamentals.
What you’ll build
You’ll build a service that handles real-world concerns: data modeling, migrations, authentication, observability, and failure modes. The goal is competence you can articulate—not just endpoints that work once.
Module preview
- API design: contracts, validation, pagination, and versioning
- Data modeling: relational fundamentals, migrations, and query performance
- Auth & authorization: sessions/JWT, roles, and secure defaults
- Testing: unit/integration, fixtures, and confidence-driven refactors
- Reliability basics: timeouts, retries, idempotency, and rate limiting
- Observability: logs/metrics/traces mindset and incident readiness