I'm a junior backend developer. Which Inflearn course should I start with?
Hello, I'm a backend developer with one year of experience. I only know how to build APIs with Spring, but I want to study AWS and CI/CD. There are so many courses on Inflearn that it's hard to choose. I'd appreciate advice from senior developers on which order to take them.
For context, I currently know nothing about Kubernetes or Docker. I think infrastructure and environment setup will be difficult since I'm not familiar with them, but I'm also thinking it might be better to dive deeper into JPA.
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Agreed. It's more urgent to dive deep into JPA. Infrastructure can wait for later.
Before planning out your course sequence, the fastest way is to just deploy a toy project. Inflearn courses aren't bad, but it's easy to end up just watching without doing. I recommend picking any CI/CD course and learning by following along and running into issues.
Well... if you're one year in, you'd be better off mastering JPA properly. AWS you'll learn as you use it. And Kubernetes—why now? Feels like overkill.
I took the Spring Core Principles and JPA Basics courses, and they were really helpful. But since what I'm missing is infrastructure, I should probably check that out too. Doing both takes a long time, so I'll go through them slowly on weekends... It's always hard to do things in parallel.
Is this a course from a reliable source? Or is the answer just to go with the popular one? On Inflearn, bestsellers are bestsellers for a reason.
Just follow the Kim Young-han lecture series in order. Take the JPA course first, then move on to the Spring Boot application course and an AWS course. If you get stuck on environment setup, searching Google and figuring it out as you go is also a skill. Don't just make endless plans—just start.
Disagree. A first-year backend developer needs to understand how services are deployed and operated to broaden their perspective. If you only dig into JPA, you might just become a developer who's good at handling tools. To see the bigger picture, I think it's better to at least skim through AWS or Docker.