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Backend Developer Roadmap

Step-by-step guide to becoming a modern backend engineer
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InternetBasic FrontendLearn a LanguageOS and General KnowledgeVersion ControlRelational DatabasesMore About DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesLearn About APIsDatabase ScalingCachingWeb Security KnowledgeTestingDesign & Development PrinciplesArchitectural PatternsSearch EnginesMessage BrokersContainerization vs VirtualizationGraphQL EcosystemReal-Time CommunicationWeb Servers & Reverse ProxiesBuild for ScaleHow OSs Work in GeneralRepo Hosting ProvidersDocument DBsColumn DBsKey-ValueTime SeriesRealtime DBsGraph DBsAPI StylesAuth StrategiesIn-Memory CachesHashing AlgorithmsResilience & Traffic ControlObservability PillarsBackendKeep Learning :)Browsers and how they workPersonal Recommendation / RequiredWhat is HTTPPersonal Recommendation / RequiredHow does the internet workPersonal Recommendation / RequiredWhat is HostingPersonal Recommendation / RequiredWhat is Domain namePersonal Recommendation / RequiredHow DNS worksPersonal Recommendation / RequiredHTMLPersonal Recommendation / RequiredCSSPersonal Recommendation / RequiredJavaScriptPersonal Recommendation / RequiredPythonPersonal Recommendation / RequiredJavaAlternative Option (Pick Any)GoPersonal Recommendation / RequiredRustAlternative Option (Pick Any)JavaScriptPersonal Recommendation / RequiredC#Alternative Option (Pick Any)PHPAlternative Option (Pick Any)Basic Terminal Commandsgrep, awk, sed, lsofcurl, wget, tail, headless, find, ssh, killPersonal Recommendation / RequiredPOSIX Basicsstdin, stdout, stderrpipes & Process MgmtPersonal Recommendation / RequiredTerminal UsagePersonal Recommendation / RequiredBasic Networking ConceptsInterprocess CommunicationProcess ManagementI/O ManagementThreads and ConcurrencyMemory ManagementBasic use of GitPersonal Recommendation / RequiredRepo Hosting ServiceGitHubPersonal Recommendation / RequiredGitLabAlternative Option (Pick Any)BitbucketAlternative Option (Pick Any)PostgreSQLPersonal Recommendation / RequiredMySQLAlternative Option (Pick Any)MariaDBAlternative Option (Pick Any)MS SQLAlternative Option (Pick Any)OracleN+1 ProblemPersonal Recommendation / RequiredTransactionsPersonal Recommendation / RequiredACIDOptional / Learn AnytimeCAP TheoremOptional / Learn AnytimeIndexesPersonal Recommendation / RequiredORMsOptional / Learn AnytimeDB NormalizationShardingOptional / Learn AnytimeReplicationOptional / Learn AnytimeMongoDBPersonal Recommendation / RequiredCouchDBAlternative Option (Pick Any)CassandraPersonal Recommendation / RequiredHBaseAlternative Option (Pick Any)RedisAlternative Option (Pick Any)DynamoDBPersonal Recommendation / RequiredInfluxDBAlternative Option (Pick Any)TimescaleDBPersonal Recommendation / RequiredFirebasePersonal Recommendation / RequiredRethinkDBNeo4jPersonal Recommendation / RequiredAPI PatternsPersonal Recommendation / RequiredHATEOASOpenAPI Spec & SwaggerAuthenticationRESTPersonal Recommendation / RequiredSOAPAlternative Option (Pick Any)gRPCPersonal Recommendation / RequiredJSON APIsAlternative Option (Pick Any)GraphQLAlternative Option (Pick Any)Basic AuthAlternative Option (Pick Any)Token AuthAlternative Option (Pick Any)JWTPersonal Recommendation / RequiredOAuth 2.0Personal Recommendation / RequiredOpenID ConnectOptional / Learn AnytimeSAMLOptional / Learn AnytimeCookies & SessionsPersonal Recommendation / RequiredDatabase IndexesPersonal Recommendation / RequiredDatabase ReplicationOptional / Learn AnytimeSharding StrategiesOptional / Learn AnytimeCAP TheoremOptional / Learn AnytimeCDNPersonal Recommendation / RequiredServer SideClient SideRedisAlternative Option (Pick Any)MemcachedHTTPSPersonal Recommendation / RequiredSSL/TLSPersonal Recommendation / RequiredOWASP Security RisksPersonal Recommendation / RequiredCORSPersonal Recommendation / RequiredCSPPersonal Recommendation / RequiredAPI Security Best PracticesPersonal Recommendation / RequiredServer SecurityPersonal Recommendation / RequiredMD5 and why not to use itSHA familyscryptbcryptUnit TestingPersonal Recommendation / RequiredIntegrationTestingAlternative Option (Pick Any)FunctionalTestingCI / CD PipelinesPersonal Recommendation / RequiredGOF Design PatternsPersonal Recommendation / RequiredDomain Driven DesignOptional / Learn AnytimeSOLIDPersonal Recommendation / RequiredKISSOptional / Learn AnytimeDRYOptional / Learn AnytimeYAGNIOptional / Learn AnytimeTest Driven DevelopmentOptional / Learn AnytimeTwelve-Factor AppsCQRS & Event SourcingMonolithic AppsServerlessSOAMicroservicesElasticsearchPersonal Recommendation / RequiredSolrAlternative Option (Pick Any)KafkaPersonal Recommendation / RequiredRabbitMQDockerPersonal Recommendation / RequiredKubernetesPersonal Recommendation / RequiredLXCApolloRelay ModernWebSocketsPersonal Recommendation / RequiredServer-Sent Events (SSE)Personal Recommendation / RequiredNginxApacheCaddyMS IISMitigation StrategiesObservability vs MonitoringGraceful DegradationThrottlingBackpressureLoadshiftingCircuit BreakerMonitoringInstrumentationTelemetry
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