Learning Infrastructure for Developers

Course details

Many software developers write features and merge them into QA without any insight into their application’s infrastructure. If you're a developer who's curious about the infrastructure that helps serve your application to customers—as well the decisions that must be made to keep your app working smoothly—then this course is for you. Join instructor Kathryn Hodge as she delves into the topic of infrastructure, explaining how the code you write fits into the rest of the technology stack. Get an overview of how the internet works, and discover how you can run your code locally with localhost. Learn how to build a remote computer on the cloud and access it using the SSH protocol. Discover how to determine where your servers live, balance traffic using load balancers, and push your code to the internet. Plus, explore advanced topics that are important to building high-availability applications, such as blue-green deployments, traffic flow, and scaling vertically or horizontally.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Advance your career by understanding infrastructure
02 - What you need to know
03 - Understand the purpose of infrastructure

1. An Overview of How the Internet Works

04 - Learn how computers communicate over the Internet
05 - Use IP addresses to access websites
06 - Use the Domain Name Service (DNS) to access websites

2. Running Code Locally

07 - Understand localhost
08 - Set up localhost with Node.js
09 - Add a listener to your web server
10 - Run localhost with Python

3. Hosting an Application

11 - On-premise infrastructure vs. IaaS
12 - Understand how EC2s work
13 - Build a remote computer on the cloud
14 - Access a remote computer with SSH
15 - Run an application on a server in the cloud

4. Receiving Traffic to Your Application

16 - Decide where your servers live
17 - Add additional servers to your infrastructure
18 - Create a load balancer with a listener
19 - Use load balancers to balance traffic

5. Pushing Code to the Internet

20 - Push code to remote servers
21 - Leverage multiple deployment environments
22 - Use containerization to encapsulate configurations
23 - Automate deployments with pipelines

6. Building Highly Available Applications

24 - Reduce risk with blue-green deployments
25 - Safely modify infrastructure with incoming traffic
26 - Scale horizontally or scale vertically

Conclusion

27 - Dive deeper into infrastructure