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Backend Development

Designing and building server-side applications, APIs and databases that are correct, secure and maintainable.

Overview

Who this course is for

Learners aiming for backend or full-stack roles.

Skills covered

  • HTTP and API design
  • Relational data modelling and SQL
  • Authentication and authorisation
  • Input validation and error handling
  • Transactions and data integrity
  • Testing server code

Example practical missions

  • Design and build a documented REST API
  • Enforce role-based permissions on the server
  • Find and fix a data-integrity bug

Module list, estimated duration, difficulty and credential details are confirmed at enrollment.

How this course is assessed

You finish by walking a reviewer through your work and answering their questions.
  1. 01Brief
  2. 02Learn
  3. 03Build
  4. 04Break
  5. 05Fix
  6. 06Explain
  7. 07Ship

Questions

What will I be able to do after Backend Development?

You will have practised http and api design, relational data modelling and sql, authentication and authorisation and more through practical missions, and you will leave with assessed evidence of that work.

Is there a certificate?

Completion and credential details are confirmed at enrollment. DigitalBurj emphasises assessed evidence, which is more informative to employers than attendance.

Interested in Backend Development?