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HTTP servers are the backbone of modern web applications, and to be a backend developer you need to know how they work inside and out.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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What will you learn?
Learn how to build and HTTP web server from scratch in the Go programming language. You'll build a production ready JSON API using fairly minimalistic tools. You'll incorporate middleware, routing, logging, webhooks, authentication, authorization, JWTs, and more. This course is the coup-de-grace for any aspiring backend developer.
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Really nice, it puts you on the spot and you start to get hands on the backend side aspect of go, re...
Matias Fuentes
Chile
Really great course to see what means backend
Tino
France
This is one of the best Go resources I’ve ever come across. Highly recommended!
Illia Kocherovets
Poland
Good for understanding Go
Yevgeniy Ustinov
Czechia
Good course. Took a lot of time but worth it to learn the concepts.
Viet Nguyen
Vietnam
Great course to learn HTTP servers by building a Twitter clone. I feel that I learned the foundatio...
Miika Savela
Vantaa, Finland
This is the backend you'll be dealing with on the field
NHMosko
Brazil
this is my favorite course in Boot.Dev
Andi Baso Ridho Mangga Barani
Jakarta, Indonesia
Challenging, but satisfying!
Marek Olczyk-Brzeziński
Warsaw, Poland
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