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      IBM

      System Analyst Capstone Project 

      Skills you'll gain: Systems Analysis, Business Systems Analysis, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis, Functional Requirement, Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Analysis, Unified Modeling Language, Database Design, Business Process Modeling, Development Testing, Process Flow Diagrams, Process Mapping, Software Design Documents, User Requirements Documents, System Design and Implementation, Data Visualization, Application Deployment, Test Driven Development (TDD)

      Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Developing RAG Apps with LlamaIndex and JS

      Skills you'll gain: Full-Stack Web Development, JavaScript Frameworks, Node.JS, Application Development, Data Maintenance, Restful API, Web Applications, Development Environment, Large Language Modeling, OpenAI, Generative AI, API Design, Application Deployment, Data Storage, Artificial Intelligence

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      AWS Step Functions – Automate Complex Tasks with Workflows

      Skills you'll gain: Amazon Web Services, Debugging, Business Process Automation, Automation, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Serverless Computing, Dataflow, Amazon DynamoDB, API Gateway, JSON

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Mastering JavaScript Variables – VAR, LET & CONST in 2025

      Skills you'll gain: Web Development Tools, Javascript, Debugging, Maintainability

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Continuous Integration Mastery with Jenkins

      Skills you'll gain: Jenkins, CI/CD, Docker (Software), GitLab, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Containerization, Git (Version Control System), Continuous Deployment, GitHub, Code Review

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      OOP concepts, Collections and Data Structures

      Skills you'll gain: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Java Programming, Java, Object Oriented Design, Data Structures, Debugging

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      Jq Command Tutorials for Bash Shell Scripting

      Skills you'll gain: Bash (Scripting Language), JSON, Shell Script, Scripting, Linux Commands, Scripting Languages, Unix Commands, Cloud API, Restful API, Command-Line Interface, Kubernetes, Software Installation

      Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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      Packt

      Web Application Security Testing with Google Hacking

      Skills you'll gain: Security Testing, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning, Secure Coding, Data Security, Application Security, Vulnerability Assessments, Web Applications, Web Servers, Information Privacy, SQL

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Coursera

      Experience Essentials: Unlocking the UX Process with Miro

      Skills you'll gain: User Experience Design, User Centered Design, Prototyping, Wireframing, User Research, Design Thinking, Collaborative Software

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Packt

      Advanced Development, Deployment, and Cloud Integration

      Skills you'll gain: Application Deployment, Cloud Applications, ASP.NET, Microsoft Azure, Software Architecture, Authentications, .NET Framework, User Interface (UI), Microsoft Development Tools, User Interface (UI) Design, Application Development, Database Development, Maintainability, Model View Controller, Web Servers, Debugging, Data Validation

      Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Harnessing LLMs & Text-Embeddings API with Google Vertex AI

      Skills you'll gain: Large Language Modeling, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud API, Prompt Engineering, Application Programming Interface (API), Unsupervised Learning, Natural Language Processing, Applied Machine Learning, Scalability

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Packt

      Specialized RMAN Features and Advanced Use Cases

      Skills you'll gain: Oracle Databases, Performance Tuning, Database Management, Database Administration, Cloud Storage, Cloud Services, Disaster Recovery, Data Integrity, Encryption

      Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    In summary, here are 10 of our most popular back end courses

    • System Analyst Capstone Project : IBM
    • Developing RAG Apps with LlamaIndex and JS: Packt
    • AWS Step Functions – Automate Complex Tasks with Workflows: Packt
    • Mastering JavaScript Variables – VAR, LET & CONST in 2025: Packt
    • Continuous Integration Mastery with Jenkins: Packt
    • OOP concepts, Collections and Data Structures: Packt
    • Jq Command Tutorials for Bash Shell Scripting: Packt
    • Web Application Security Testing with Google Hacking: Packt
    • Experience Essentials: Unlocking the UX Process with Miro: Coursera
    • Advanced Development, Deployment, and Cloud Integration: Packt

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