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Deployment & System Design Guide
Take your Python API from localhost to production on real cloud platforms (Render, Railway, Fly.io), set up managed databases (Supabase, Neon), Redis in the cloud (Upstash), a reverse proxy with Nginx, and master the fundamentals of System Design: monolith vs microservices, caching layers, message queues, scaling strategies, and API versioning. Guide #15 and the LAST one in the Backend Python Developer with FastAPI Path — the capstone that closes out the whole path.
- 56
- lessons
- 7
- modules
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- certificate
- Free
- access
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do
- Cloud Platforms: Deploy on Render, Railway, Fly.io — from localhost to a public URL in minutes
- Environment Management: Production vs staging vs development with secure secrets
- Managed Databases: Supabase, Neon for PostgreSQL; connection pooling with PgBouncer
- Redis Hosting: Upstash, Redis Cloud for caching and rate limiting in production
- Reverse Proxy: Nginx as a reverse proxy, SSL termination, request routing
- Load Balancing: Round-robin, least connections, health checks
- Horizontal Scaling: Multiple instances, stateless sessions, shared state
- Vertical Scaling: Resource optimization, right-sizing
- System Design Fundamentals: Monolith vs microservices, database patterns, caching layers, message queues (Celery, RQ), rate limiting, API versioning
- Security: HTTPS, firewalls, secrets management
- Cost Optimization: Free tiers, resource monitoring, cost-effective architecture
- Final Project: Deploy a production-ready E-commerce API + a System Design Document
Content
The syllabus, module by module
Open any of them to see its lessons.
- Módulo 2: Database & Redis Hosting
- Managed vs self-hosted: the professional decision
- Supabase vs Neon: a comparison
- Connection pooling: the critical concept
- Data migration: from local to the cloud
- Redis hosting: Upstash vs Redis Cloud
- End-to-end verification + troubleshooting
- Mini-project: Database in the Cloud
- Módulo 3: Reverse Proxy & Load Balancing
- Qué es un reverse proxy y por qué importa
- Nginx fundamentals: configuration for FastAPI
- SSL termination: HTTPS terminates at the proxy
- Load balancing: distributing traffic across backends
- Rate limiting + health checks in Nginx
- HAProxy + cloud platforms: the alternatives
- Mini-project: Nginx Reverse Proxy
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Common questions
What people usually ask
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