Introduction to Back-End Development

Meta’s entry course into back-end engineering. Covered how the web actually works under the hood — request/response cycles, the role of servers, and where back-end code sits in a modern stack — plus a tour of the technologies and roles involved in shipping production software.

• How the internet works: clients, servers, IPs, and DNS
• HTTP fundamentals and the request/response cycle
• Front-end vs back-end vs full-stack roles
• Web servers and where back-end code runs
• Cloud hosting basics and deployment models
• Working with APIs at a conceptual level
• Version control with Git and collaborative workflows
• Career paths and day-to-day life of a back-end engineer