Hussein Nasser's "Fundamentals of Backend Engineering" on Udemy is an intermediate, 16-hour course focused on first principles, communication protocols, and operating system fundamentals rather than specific frameworks. It deconstructs the "black box" of backend design, covering topics like HTTP/3, gRPC, TLS, and L4/L7 proxying to teach backend communication mechanisms. Learn more about the course at Fundamentals of Backend Engineering Course Review 12 Mar 2024 —
If you were to pay for a coding bootcamp to learn this, you would spend $15,000. If you were to learn via trial and error at a job, you might cost your company a production outage.
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These instructors don't just read slides; they share war stories from production outages, debugging sessions at 3 AM, and architectural review checklists used to ship code to millions of users.