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id: academy-foundational
title: Foundational
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**This Unleash Academy course is for all roles working with Unleash - Developers, Product owners, Leaders.**
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**Estimated time burden:** 75 min
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## Learning Objectives 

Gain a baseline understanding of why to use Unleash in your development and a general introduction to CI/CD. 
An understanding of Unleash anatomy and architecture and how the different systems connect together.

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**Intro to Feature Flags/Toggles & Unleash**
  - Feature flags - What they are & why to use them
  - What is Unleash? 

**Anatomy of Unleash**
  - Covering the various components that exist within the Unleash system and how they interact with each other and with external applications. Components that include but not limited to: projects, environments, variants, feature toggles --> strategies, tokens, tags, context

**Architecture overview**
  - Unleash API, UI, SDKs, Proxy --> Edge (Proxy 2.0)

**How to use Unleash**
- Projects and Environments
- Toggle creation and targeting
- Strategies, constraints, segments
- Variants (and environments), Strategy Variants
- Introduction to A/B Testing
- API tokens (Personal Access Tokens, client, frontend)

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## Course Detail

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