schedule.md

📅 Winter 2026 Schedule

BYU Academic Calendar

Week	Date	Module	Discussion Topics	Deliverable due	Slides
1	Thu Jan 8	Getting started	☑ Overview History Terminology JWT Pizza Intro to AWS ☑ AWS Account AWS Route 53 GitHub ☑ JWT Pizza Factory Late Policy Commit History ⭐ Christlike learning ⭐ Curiosity report ☑ Asking Questions		Introduction
2	Tue Jan 13	Simple deployment	☑ JWT Pizza Service ☑ JWT Pizza data ☑ JWT Pizza Client Full stack debugging Merge conflicts ⭐ ⓵ Development deployment: JWT Pizza	⭐ Christlike learning	Development deployment
	Thu Jan 15		Automation Continuous integration (CI) ☑ GitHub Actions Static deployment ☑ GitHub Pages ⭐ ⓶ Automated deployment: JWT Pizza	⭐ ⓵ Development deployment	Automated deployment
3	Tue Jan 20	Quality assurance	Testing Testing categories Coverage Jest Basics	⭐ ⓶ Automated deployment	Basic testing
	Thu Jan 22		☑ Jest Advanced ☑ Service testing ☑ Lint		Advanced testing
4	Tue Jan 27		Unit testing: JWT Pizza Service ⭐ ⓷ Unit testing CI: JWT Pizza Service		JWT Pizza service testing
	Thu Jan 29		UI testing ☑ Playwright		UI testing
5	Tue Feb 3		⭐ ⓸ User interface testing: JWT Pizza	⭐ ⓷ Unit testing CI	JWT Pizza testing
	Thu Feb 5		Dependency injection Integration testing		Dependency injection
6	Tue Feb 10	Cloud deployment	☑ Test driven development (TDD) ⭐ ⓹ Test driven development	⭐ ⓸ User interface testing	Test driven development
	Thu Feb 12		Cloud deployment ☑ AWS S3 AWS CloudFront Deployment environments GitHub environments		Cloud deployment
7	Tue Feb 17		Holiday: Monday class
	Thu Feb 19		Elasticity AWS S3 deployment ⭐ ⓺ Frontend deployment: JWT Pizza	⭐ ⓹ Test driven development	JWT Pizza deployment
8	Tue Feb 24		Docker Containers ☑ JWT Pizza Service container ☑ AWS RDS MySQL		Containers
	Thu Feb 26		☑ AWS ECR ☑ AWS ECS ⭐ ⓻ Backend deployment: JWT Pizza Service	⭐ ⓺ Frontend deployment	JWT Pizza Service deployment
9	Tue Mar 3		Infrastructure as code AWS Cloud Formation ☑ JWT Pizza Service infrastructure automation		Infrastructure automation
	Thu Mar 5	Observability	Observability Metrics ☑ Grafana Grafana metrics	⭐ ⓻ Backend deployment	Observability
10	Tue Mar 10		☑ Visualizing metrics Simulating traffic ⭐ ⓼ Metrics: JWT Pizza Service		Metrics
	Thu Mar 12		Versioning Deployment strategies ☑ GitHub Releases		Releases
11	Tue Mar 17		Logging ☑ Grafana logging ⭐ ⓽ Logging: JWT Pizza Service	⭐ ⓼ Metrics	Logging
	Thu Mar 19		☑ Grafana annotations ☑ Synthetic testing Status		Synthetic testing
12	Tue Mar 24	E2E testing	Load testing Grafana K6 ⭐ ⓾ Load testing: JWT Pizza Service	⭐ ⓽ Logging	Load testing
	Thu Mar 26		Failure Backup and Recovery Alerts ☑ Grafana OnCall		Failure
13	Tue Mar 31	Failure management	Playbooks Self healing ☑ Chaos testing Incident report ⭐ ⑪ Chaos testing: JWT Pizza	⭐ ⓾ Load testing	Chaos
	Thu Apr 2		Security Security Community Penetration testing	⭐ Curiosity report	Security
14	Tue Apr 7	Penetration testing	☑ Burp Suite ⭐ ⑫ Penetration testing: JWT Pizza	⭐ ⑪ Chaos testing	Penetration testing
	Thu Apr 9		Meet with your penetration test peer No class	Partner connection deadline
15	Tue Apr 14	Conclusion	⭐ Christlike learning conclusion ☑ Wrap up	⭐ ⑫ Penetration testing	That's a wrap
	Wed Apr 15		Last day No assignments accepted after this day	⭐ Christlike learning conclusion

Special days

• Jan 7: First day of class
• Jan 14: Drop deadline
• Jan 19: Holiday
• Feb 16: Holiday (Monday class on 17th)
• Apr 1: Withdraw deadline
• Apr 15: Last day of class
• Apr 22: Last day of finals