Alura courses: HTTP and secure development for 32k+ students
Oct 15, 2023
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HTTP and secure-development courses on Alura.
What it is
Three online developer courses I authored for Alura, Brazil’s largest developer-education platform. Together they reached 32k+ students with an average rating of 9.2/10. Two of them are part of Alura’s DevOps Security track.
What I built
24 hours of structured content total, in Portuguese, all video-led with hands-on exercises:
- HTTP: entendendo a web por baixo dos panos (10 h) — HTTP/HTTPS fundamentals, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, URLs, headers, request/response. The “how does the web actually work” course.
- Desenvolvimento Seguro: lidando com erros e logs em uma aplicação (6 h) — error-safe coding, log hygiene, cryptographic integrity for log records, Elasticsearch + Kibana for analysis. Applied to Node.js / TypeScript APIs.
- Desenvolvimento seguro com DAST e SCA: protegendo as dependências e a aplicação em execução (8 h) — Software Composition Analysis and Dynamic Application Security Testing for Node.js apps, integrated into CI pipelines with Dependency Track, Nuclei, and Snyk.
For each course I owned the full course-authoring pipeline: instructional design, scripting, video recording and editing, exercise design, and the supporting code, examples, and quizzes.
Challenges
- Translating production-grade security practice into an asynchronous, Portuguese-language course for working developers
- Deep technical material (HTTP/3, DAST, SCA) in 6–10 h chunks needs aggressive pruning and careful sequencing
- Asynchronous video has no Q&A safety net — every example has to land cleanly the first time
- Shipping a steady cadence of recorded content while working part-time and remotely
Numbers
- 32k+ students across the three courses
- 9.2/10 average student rating
- 24 hours of content
- 3 courses, two of them in Alura’s DevOps Security track
- Tenure: June 2022 → October 2023 (remote, part-time)
