Backend Developer Roadmap

Step by step guide to becoming a modern backend developer in 2023

Live: https://muratdemirci.github.io/backend-dev-roadmap/#/

Table of Contents

• Internet
  • How Does the Internet Work?
  • What is HTTP?
  • Browsers and how they work
  • DNS and how it works?
  • What is Domain Name?
  • What is hosting?

• Basic Frontend Knowledge
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

• Os and General Knowledge
  • Terminal Usage
  • How OSs work in General
  • Process Management
  • Threads and Concurrency
  • Basic Terminal Commands
  • Memory Management
  • Interprocess Communication
  • I/O Management
  • POSIX Basics
  • Basic Networking Concepts

• Learn a Programming Language
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Golang

• Version Control Systems
  • Basic Usage of Git

• Databases
  • Relational Databases
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • MariaDB
    • MS SQL
    • Oracle
  • NoSQL Databases
    • MongoDB
    • RethinkDB
    • CouchDB
    • DynamoDB
  • ORMs
  • ACID
  • Transactions
  • N+1 Problem
  • Database Normalization
  • Indexes and how they work
  • Data Replication
  • Sharding Strategies
  • CAP Theorem

• Learn about APIs
  • Authentication
    • Cookie Based
    • OAuth
    • Basic Authentication
    • Token Authentication
    • JWT
    • OpenID
    • SAML
  • REST
  • JSON APIs
  • SOAP
  • HATEOAS
  • Open API Spec

• Caching
  • CDN
  • Client Side
  • Server Side
    • Redis
    • Memcached

• Web Security
  • Hashing Algorithms
    • MD5
    • SHA Family
    • Bcrypt
    • Scrypt
  • HTTPS
  • Content Security Policy
  • CORS
  • SSL/TLS
  • OWASP Security Risks

• Testing
  • Unit Testing
  • Integration Testing
  • Functional Testing

• CI / CD

• Design and Development Principles
  • SOLID
  • KISS
  • YAGNI
  • DRY
  • GOF Design Patterns
  • Domain Driven Design
  • Test Driven Development

• Architectural Patterns
  • Monolothic Apps
  • Microservices
  • SOA
  • CQRS and Event Sourcing
  • Serverless

• Search Engines
  • Elastic Search
  • Solr

• Message Brokers
  • RabbitMQ
  • Kafka

• Containerization vs Virtualization
  • Docker
  • rkt
  • LXC

• GraphQL
  • Apollo
  • Relay Modern

• Graph Databases
  • Neo4j

• WebSockets

• Web Servers
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • Caddy
  • MS IIS

• Scaling
  • Mitigation Strategies
    • Graceful Degradation
    • Throttling
    • Backpressure
    • Loadshifting
    • Circuit Breaker
  • Understand the Diff
    • Instrumentation
    • Monitoring
    • Telemetry
  • Migration Strategies
  • Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling

TOC credits: https://roadmap.sh/backend