DreamFactory Platform Training Curriculum
Whether you're an OSS user or paid customer, the DreamFactory platform has undoubtedly played an outsized role in your efforts to reduce development expenses, improve API security, and improve efficiency. Now it's time to wring out even more performance gains by taking advantage of our training curriculum. You and your team will gain invaluable knowledge and insights directly from members of the DreamFactory engineering team, and can choose from onsite or remote web conference training.
We can provide your team with a standardized curriculum or even create a custom itinerary to suit your specific requirements. Contact our team at [email protected] for pricing and scheduling information.
Module 0: Exploring DreamFactory
- Introductory videos from our CTO giving an overview of all DreamFactory features DreamFactory Academy
- An updated quick start guide to get you up and running in no time DreamFactory Guide
Module 1: Introducing the DreamFactory Platform
- High-level overview of DreamFactory platform
- Native connectors review
- Remote service connectors review
Module 2: Generating and Configuring Your First REST API
- Generating a database API
- Interacting with the Swagger Documentation
- Creating and managing roles
- Creating and managing API keys
- Interacting with the API via an HTTP REST client
Module 3: Performing CRUD Operations
- Fetching all records
- Fetching by primary key
- Fetching by condition
- Fetching specific fields
- Ordering results
- Counting results
- JOINing tables
- Creating records
- Updating records
- Deleting records
Module 4: Creating File Service APIs
- Generating an Amazon S3 API
- Interacting with the API via an HTTP REST client
Module 5: Integrating with a Remote Service API
- Integrating third-party SOAP services
- Integrating third-party REST API services
- IBM Watson example
Module 6: Authenticating Users and Administrators
- Creating users inside the DreamFactory administration console
- Authenticating users
- Introducing JWT
- Authentication administrators
- Integrating LDAP
- Integrating SSO via SAML
Module 7: Introducing Scripting
- Scripting overview
- The endpoint scripting interface
- Supported scripting engines
- The DreamFactory scripting API
- Adding business logic to API endpoints
- Creating custom APIs using scripting
Module 8: Advanced Scripting Examples
- Validating client input parameters
- Transforming response structures
- Integrating third-party APIs
Module 9: Introducing DataMesh
- Integrating multiple databases using DataMesh
Module 10: Introducing Limiting and Logging
- Creating and enforcing API limits
- Integrating request logging using the ELK stack
Module 11: DreamFactory Best Practices
- Enabling data caching
- Segmenting API keys
- Assigning user-restricted API Docs access
- Employing multi-layered data security
Contact our team at [email protected] for pricing and scheduling information.