Learning Infrastructure for Developers

Learn about the infrastructure that helps serve software applications to customers—as well the decisions that must be made to keep applications working smoothly.

Introduction

• Advance your career by understanding infrastructure
• What you need to know
• Understand the purpose of infrastructure

1. An Overview of How the Internet Works

• Learn how computers communicate over the Internet
• Use IP addresses to access websites
• Use the Domain Name Service (DNS) to access websites

2. Running Code Locally

• Understand localhost
• Set up localhost with Node.js
• Add a listener to your web server
• Run localhost with Python

3. Hosting an Application

• On-premise infrastructure vs. IaaS
• Understand how EC2s work
• Build a remote computer on the cloud
• Access a remote computer with SSH
• Run an application on a server in the cloud

4. Receiving Traffic to Your Application

• Decide where your servers live
• Add additional servers to your infrastructure
• Create a load balancer with a listener
• Use load balancers to balance traffic

5. Pushing Code to the Internet

• Push code to remote servers
• Leverage multiple deployment environments
• Use containerization to encapsulate configurations
• Automate deployments with pipelines

6. Building Highly Available Applications

• Reduce risk with blue-green deployments
• Safely modify infrastructure with incoming traffic
• Scale horizontally or scale vertically?

Conclusion

• Dive deeper into infrastructure