Cloud & Serverless Infrastructure

How real infrastructure scales: container deployments, serverless compute, queues and schedulers, presigned URLs, OIDC federation, and the entire class of gotchas that appear once you're managing real cloud resources.

17 lessons

Study 69 cards for this domain

Beginner

Infrastructure as code with TerraformBeginner4 min read·Not startedContainers and Docker basicsBeginner4 min read·Not startedServerless compute: Lambda and function-as-a-serviceBeginner6 min read·Not startedLoad balancers and health checksBeginner3 min read·Not started

Intermediate

Queues and async job processingIntermediate4 min read·Not startedPresigned URLs and secure file accessIntermediate4 min read·Not startedCI/CD: GitHub Actions and OIDC federationIntermediate4 min read·Not startedCDNs and edge caching fundamentalsIntermediate4 min read·Not startedNetworking basics for cloud appsIntermediate4 min read·Not startedAuto-scaling: policies, metrics, and gotchasIntermediate4 min read·Not started

Advanced

Secrets and configuration managementAdvanced5 min read·Not startedReal production gotchas and lessons learnedAdvanced11 min read·Not startedContainer orchestration with ECS FargateAdvanced5 min read·Not startedObservability and monitoringAdvanced5 min read·Not startedZero-downtime deploys and database migrationsAdvanced4 min read·Not startedBlue-green and canary deploymentsAdvanced3 min read·Not startedCloud cost optimization and billing gotchasAdvanced3 min read·Not started