It seems you know how to program and how the web works, but want to know how it all fits together (testing, deployment, scaling etc). I think you will find Jaco

It seems you know how to program and how the web works, but want to know how it all fits together (testing, deployment, scaling etc). I think you will find Jacob Kaplan-Moss's presentation of all the pieces of building a web application. It is geared towards Django, but it should give a good overview of what goes into a webapp. And if you are using Django or Python, all the better! http://www.slideshare.net/jacobian/django-in-the-real-world http://www.slideshare.net/jacobian/django-in-the-real-world