8 Lessons

Fundamental of Backend

The Internet topic showed how bytes get from one machine to another. This one is about what the server does with them: HTTP semantics, REST design, authentication, caching layers, reverse proxies, load balancing, rate limiting, and the full request lifecycle.

Every lesson is an interactive widget. Type a request, watch a token bucket drain, send traffic through three load-balancer strategies — the principles stick because you're driving.

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