Technology 101 for Product Managers

🧤Introduction to Technology for Product Managers

• How much technical knowledge is required for effective product management?
• Product Management Myth Busters

🌍How internet works?

• DNS as a directory
• IP Address to locate devices
• Client and Server

🛠Frontend and Backend

• What happens at the server
• What happens at the front-end
• Important Components on the frontend and backend
• Client: Browser, App, Any device - Ability to understand things sent from the server
• Server: Programming language, Files, APIs, and Databases, Understanding the request and sending the response

📚 Tech stacks and programming 101

• What is a tech stack?
• Programming 101
• Mobile App v/s Website tech stacks

📦 Introduction to Database and SQL

• Use cases for databases
• SQL v/s NoSQL database
• How to model a database
• SQL 101

🌦AWS and cloud basics

• What is cloud?
• Introduction to AWS
• Common AWS products and their use cases? EC2, SES, S3, RDS, Elastic beanstalk, Identity Management

🕸APIs and Webhooks

• The world of APIs and their use-cases
• REST APIs and common terminology
• Method | EndPoint | Headers | Rate Limiting | PayLoad
• How to test and understand APIs
• What are webhooks
• Why do we need webhooks, some common use cases
• Testing APIs with Postman

🙋How tech teams work?

• GIT
• Staging, Integration and Production
• Scrum
• Creating predictability

🔖Tech artifacts for PMs

• Data flow diagrams
• Pesudo code
• Wireframes
• API documentation

🚀System design for PMs

• Common bottle necks for scale
• Methods to design a scalable system

💡 Tech teardown of popular products

• CRED
• NETFLIX
• LINKEDIN
• INSTAGRAM