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Complete Django Banking API: Build a Secure FinTech Platform
Build with DRF, PostgreSQL, Celery, Docker & Redis. JWT auth, 2FA, transfers, audit logs, tested & deployed to prod.
Created byAlpha Omondi Ogilo
Last updated 11/2024
English
What you'll learn
- You will learn how to use Docker with Celery, Redis,RabbitMQ, Flower with Django REST Framework
- You will learn how to use Reverse Proxies and load balancing with NGINX
- You will learn how Secure an API with HTTPS with SSL Certificates from Letsencrypt
- You will learn how manage multiple Docker containers with Portainer in Production
- You will learn how to use shell scripts to automate and monitor processes
- You will learn how to implement Asynchronous tasks with Celery, Redis and RabbitMQ
- You will learn how to Serve static files with Nginx
- You will learn how to work with Postgres within a Docker container, including how to perform backups using shell scripts.
- You will learn how to setup an Ubuntu server, running Django over a Domain name.
- You will learn how to use makefiles to make working with Docker easier.
- You will learn how to use Loguru for comprehensive Logging
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Course content
18 sections • 133 lectures • 18h 29m total length
Requirements
- This course is NOT for absolute beginners.
- This course is targeted at Python Developers with at least 1 year of web development experience or more
- It's preferable that you use a computer with any LINUX based operating system or MacOS. If not possible, a windows machine will also work, but I have not tested the course material with a windows machine
- You should be familiar with the basic concepts surrounding shell scripts, Docker,API's and Django.
Description
In this comprehensive course we shall learn the art of building a professional-grade Banking API using Django and modern best practices!
You'll learn how to create a secure, scalable, and feature-rich banking system that handles everything from user authentication and KYC verification to real-time transactions, multi-currency support, creation of virtual cards, Fraud detection/suspicious transactions detection and automated PDF statement generation.
You'll dive deep into industry-standard practices like implementing Two-Factor Authentication via otp, rate limiting, comprehensive logging, JWT auth via cookies, asynchronous task processing with Celery,Setting up reverse proxies via NGINX, API Documentation, email notifications, among many other practices
By leveraging powerful tools like PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Docker, you'll build a production-ready API that could serve as the backbone of a modern digital banking platform. Throughout the course, you'll gain hands-on experience with essential banking operations including deposits, withdrawals, and inter-account transfers, while implementing robust error handling and transaction logging by using popular third party tools such as Loguru.
Whether you're an aspiring FinTech developer or looking to level up your Django skills, this course will teach you how to architect and implement banking-grade security measures, handle financial transactions, and create maintainable, well-documented code that follows real-world banking protocols.
Who this course is for:
- Intermediate Python Developers curious about how to use Django REST Framework with shell scripts, Docker, Docker, Celery, Redis, Rabbitmq, Flower and Nginx. You will learn everything you need to know to combine these technologies in a production build by leveraging other tools such as Portainer, NGINX Proxy manager among others
- Intermediate Python Developers with at least 1 year of experience, more is better
- Python Developers,curious about building a Fintech kind of API