Zemanta is organizing a backend summer school where you will learn all areas of backend development and build a robust backend system from scratch. We will go through the process of planning the architecture of the system and setting up the development environment, followed by creating a service and running it locally. We will then connect the service to a NoSQL database and an external API, add logging and instrument the application with useful metrics. You will choose what functionality your application will have and implement the necessary business logic. After that, you will learn how to build and dockerize your application and how to deploy it to a public cloud. You will be able to choose between Kotlin and Java accompanied by the Spring Boot framework, which helps you quickly bootstrap production ready applications.

The summer school will consist of many useful talks given by our expert backend engineers, each of which will be followed by a hands-on workshop, where you will put the new knowledge in practice. It’s a great opportunity if you want a better understanding of what it means to be a backend developer and how we do it in the industry. 

The whole event will happen on site in our offices near Tivoli park and will be completely FREE of charge (including lunch, coffee, snacks and all activities). But we do expect your full commitment during the one week of the summer school – remember: if you apply, get accepted and don’t show up, you are taking away a seat from someone else who really wanted to attend!