Practice & Assessment
Test your understanding of Production and Best Practices: Logging, Monitoring, Documentation, and Deployment
Multiple Choice Questions
6What is structured logging and why is it preferred over plain text logging in production?
What is a correlation ID and why is it important in distributed systems?
What problem does Redis caching solve in REST API performance?
What is the purpose of a multi-stage Docker build for a Node.js REST API?
What is graceful shutdown in a REST API server and why is it important?
What does the OpenAPI (Swagger) specification enable for REST APIs?
Mini Project
Full-Stack Production REST API: Complete Social Media Backend
Build and deploy a complete production-ready Social Media REST API covering every concept in this course. Include: User management with JWT auth, refresh tokens, Google OAuth, email verification, and password reset. Posts with image attachments uploaded to Cloudinary. Comments as nested resources with threaded replies. A follow system with a personalized feed endpoint. Likes on posts and comments. Notifications for interactions. Full-text search across posts and users. Cursor-based pagination on all feeds. Advanced filtering and sorting. URL-versioned API (/api/v1). Per-user rate limiting with Redis. Webhook events for post.created and user.followed with HMAC-signed payloads. Complete security stack (helmet, CORS, rate limiting, mongo-sanitize, xss-clean). Winston structured logging with correlation IDs and Sentry error monitoring. Full OpenAPI documentation at /api/docs. Dockerized with docker-compose for local development. GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that runs tests on PRs and builds and pushes a Docker image on merge to main. Minimum 85% test coverage. Full README with architecture diagram, setup instructions, and API documentation overview.