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Phase 4 · Backend engineering

Week 11: Backend II

Friday deliverable: Project 4 code

Day 1API design: resources, pagination, filtering, error formatOutline only
Day 2Goroutines, channels, the race detectorOutline only
Day 3OpenAPI spec; idempotency conceptsOutline only
Day 4Build Project 4: Chama REST APIOutline only
Day 5Tests; security review for IDOR and validation gapsOutline only

Threads this phase

Security. Validation, IDOR, error leakage, request size limits

AI. Generation begins with prompting fundamentals: generate, then review line by line; spot hallucinated APIs against the docs

System trace. Client → DNS → TCP → TLS → Nginx → router → middleware → handler → DB → response

Project 4

Chama REST API

Go service exposing members, contributions and loans over HTTP with an OpenAPI spec

Runs on: AWS EC2

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