The course aims to provide developers with a practical understanding of selected network aspects. The topics are chosen in a way that comprehensively covers the information necessary to effectively operate as a full-stack developer with full control over the network behavior of the application.

Course topics:

OSI and TCP/IP model
Layer 3 OSI - network - IPv4, IPv6
Layer 4 OSI - transport - TCP, UDP, Ports
Layer 7 OSI - application - HTTP
Structure of HTTP packet
HTTP/1.1 vs HTTP/2
DNS
Client-server architecture
Proxy, reverse-proxy
Firewall
SSL, TLS, Certificates
Websocket
Load-balancing