KB KEDBYTE TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED
PART G  ·  VOLUME 4

Building and Shipping Software

The web, APIs, version control, automation, the cloud and keeping all of it safe.

CHAPTERS IN THIS PART

35. Web and App Development

You will be able to draw the line between frontend and backend, say exactly You will be able to say what HTML, CSS and JavaScript each are, why they are...

36. APIs - What They Are and Where They Came From

You will be able to say what an API actually is in one sentence, and to You will be able to point at an API at five different scales, from one...

37. Git - Why It Works With No Network

You will be able to say what version control is for, and name the six real You will be able to state the difference between a centralized and a...

38. What a Commit Actually Is

You will be able to say what content-addressed storage is: the name of a You will be able to explain what a hash function is, name the five...

39. The Index, Push, Fetch, Merge and Rebase

You will be able to name the three places a file can live in git, working You will be able to open `.git/index`, read its header by hand, and explain...

40. Your Own Git Server, and What GitHub Adds

You will be able to say, in one sentence, what a git server is, and prove You will be able to explain what `--bare` means, what a bare repository...

41. CI/CD and What a "Run" Really Is

You will be able to explain what continuous integration is as a practice, You will be able to state the difference between continuous delivery and...

42. SSH, HTTPS, Keys, Tokens and Scopes

You will be able to explain the two ways git talks to a server, SSH and You will be able to say what SSH is, who wrote it, in what year, and what...

43. Cloud Computing, the Bezos Mandate, AWS and Azure

You will be able to say what "the cloud" actually is in one plain sentence, You will be able to describe a real datacentre from the outside wall to the...

44. Security

You will be able to say what security actually means, using the five You will be able to explain what a hash is, why MD5 and SHA-1 are dead,...