techbow-web-development

Course Goal

• Learn backend development techniques and tools and gain a breadth of knowledge
• Work on real microservices and databases
• Learn practical know-how through significant hands-on coding samples
• Identify, formulate, and solve common engineering problems
• Apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs

Set up environment

Docker is the only environment you need: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/

Materials

• Slides and other documents
• Codebase on Github (this page)

Syllabus

• Getting Started: build your first HTTP API using Python Flask
• Deploy your backend to Docker
• Introduction to Redis
• Include Redis to your backend
• Your first RESTful API
• Introduction to RabbitMQ and air sensor demo project
• Introduction to MySQL
• Storing resources in a SQL databases
• [Optional] Simplify RESTful API development using Flask-restful
• [Optional] Simplify storage with Flask-SQLALchemy
• [Optional] Orchestrate Docker using Kubernete