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A complete learning path from zero to production — structured, progressive, no gaps. Seven phases covering how the web works, REST APIs, databases, authentication, testing, Docker, CI/CD, and advanced system design. Built for aspiring engineers who want to understand the backend deeply, not just follow recipes.
Build a distributed key-value store from the ground up. We cover consensus with Raft, leader election, log replication, snapshotting, and fault tolerance — with working Go code throughout.
A practical, no-nonsense guide to Go for engineers who already know Python. We skip the basics and focus on what's genuinely different — concurrency, interfaces, error handling, and building production-grade services.
Kubernetes operators are the best way to encode operational knowledge into the platform. In this tutorial, we build a real operator that manages a stateful application — covering CRDs, reconciliation loops, and controller-runtime.
Authentication that you understand is authentication you can debug at 2am. We implement JWT auth from scratch — signing, verification, refresh tokens, revocation, and common security pitfalls to avoid.
Most Docker tutorials show you how to make things work. This one shows you how to make them work well — smaller images, better caching, non-root containers, secrets management, and container security scanning.