Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
14 Hour(s) 13 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Jorge Escobar
Rating
Course Overview
Learn to create scalable web applications that can serve millions of users using Flask, MongoDB and Amazon AWS
This course will teach you some of the advanced development concepts used in the top tech companies today. How do I know this? Because I’ve been leading tech teams in both large enterprise as well as startup companies in New York City for the past 15 years.
Thousands of students have completed my "Professional Python Web Development Using Flask" Udemy Course, which introduced them to the basic concepts of Python and Flask and this course builds on top of that knowledge and takes you to the next step in web application architecture design.
The course goes through the process of building a social web application using Python Flask and the most popular document store database in the market: MongoDB. We will go over modeling best practices, how to build efficient indexes and how to interact with it using the popular MongoEngine ORM.
Step-by-step we will go over the user registration, login and management, the relationship model for users to become friends, and a scalable news feed system using the same architectural design that Twitter and other popular social applications have been using to handle massive amounts of user data.
Additionally we will setup and use Amazon’s AWS cloud infrastructure for this social application, and you will learn how to manage thousands of images using Amazon S3 and best-of-class email distribution using Amazon SES.
At the end of the course students will be challenged with a final project where all the course material will need to be used to complete it. Students that finish the final project will be eligible for special future promotions.
If you already know the basics of Python and Flask and you are interested in advancing your knowledge, this course will go over some of the advanced concepts of web application development, architecture design, database modeling and leveraging cloud infrastructure services.
The course is divided in 7 sections:
- Introduction
- Fundamental Concepts
- MongoDB and Flask Blueprints
- The User Module and an Introduction to AWS
- The Relationship Module
- The Feed Module
- Final Project
The course has more than 13 hours of video tutorials as well as the source code at the end of each lesson, so that you can see exactly what the whole project looks like in each stage.
The course can take anywhere from 10 days to a month to complete based on how much material the student completes daily.
Additionally we’re constantly updating the course, adding contents thanks to the feedback of our students.
Join this course and continue your path to becoming a professional Python backend web developer!
Course Content
- 8 section(s)
- 76 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 Your Local Dev Environment
- Section 3 MongoDB and Flask Blueprints
- Section 4 The User Module and an Introduction to AWS
- Section 5 The Relationship Module
- Section 6 The Feed Module
- Section 7 Final Project
- Section 8 Bonus Section
What You’ll Learn
- You will learn advanced concepts for Flask web development including Blueprints, You will be introduced to MongoDB and the concepts of NoSQL databases, You will learn strategies for scaling applications to millions of reads and writes per second, You will learn to use Amazon Web Services like S3 and SES through the Boto library
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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NNitinkumar Patel
It's really good course to start social app using Flask. Thank you Sir!
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AAbby Sanderson
This was a great course from beginning to end and because of Jorge, I learned how to build a social network application from scratch. The course is well put and very enjoyable. Jorge style of teaching is wonderful. The course does have a prerequisite and that is you must already know Python and Flask. Luckily for you, Jorge already has a course by that name where you build a blog, I suggest first taking that course before you take this one. The course starts with an introduction to the technology you be using such as MongoDB and then ramps up the difficulty level but the good thing Jorge does a good job of explaining these steps. By the end of the course you will have a full working application along with the knowledge that comes with it. I admit I took a little bit longer to finish the course because I kept resetting the progress in order to better understand the material but for me it was worth it. This is my application that I have built https://absocialnetwork.com This is the source code. https://github.com/EgbieAndersonUku1/socialnetworkapp
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TTed Swoyer
A good advanced course that covers some areas where scalability may be important. Complex enough to illustrate advanced techniques. Also the live debugging when Jorge makes a mistake is really useful to illustrate how to find issues when I make mistakes. Jorge is also a good instructor--clear, concise and easy to follow.
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PPongsaton rattanapriyanuch
Pro: good detail many new thing for beginner to learn and exited use AWS Con: have problem with mongo dB, many thing are outdated instructor doesn't response anymore something I get confuse with his word explanation are not clear, you need to spend some time reading document
