Cloud & Deployment Basics

What you'll learn

• ✦Explain what "the cloud" really is and why renting computers beats buying them
• ✦Tell servers and serverless apart, and pick the right one for a project
• ✦Choose between static and dynamic hosting based on what your site needs
• ✦Trace how a domain name turns into a real server using DNS
• ✦Keep secrets like API keys out of your code with environment variables
• ✦Describe the difference between build time and runtime, and why it matters
• ✦Read a CI/CD pipeline and understand what each stage is doing
• ✦Use logs, monitoring, and rollbacks to handle problems after you ship
• ✦Scale apps horizontally behind a load balancer and deploy with zero downtime
• ✦Grasp containers, infrastructure as code, and how cloud cost and backups work

Syllabus