backender-roadmap

Step by step guide to becoming a modern backend developer

Table of Contents

1. Layered Architecture
2. HTTP
3. Diary

Layered Architecture

Feel the difference between the frontend and backend of a web application: Layered Architecture Demo

• 📺 Scaling Distributed Systems - Software Architecture Introduction (part 2)

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HTTP

From HTTP/1 to 1.1, 2, and 3:

• Real world examples of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3
• 📺 HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 to HTTP/3

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Diary

First Season

• 25.01.2023. Layered Architecture. Frontend and backend. REST API.
• 01.02.2023. HTML. HTTP.
• 08.02.2023. HTTP. Exercises with GET and POST methods in Chrome and Postman.
• 01.03.2023. HTTP/2. The simplest JS frontend. API design example.
• 16.03.2023. Internet. What is hosting? DNS. Git Crash Course, part 1, introduction to git.
• 24.03.2023. DNS root servers. Autonomous systems. Unit tests, pytest, test-driven development (TDD). Git Crash Course, part 2, git basics.
• 31.03.2023. Git homework. Markdown. CSS. Twitter Bootstrap. CSS preprocessors.
• 07.04.2023. HTTP. Replace Uvicorn HTTP/1.1 with Hypercorn HTTP/2 and check the HTTP/2 connection. Git Crash Course, part 3, git branching.
• 14.04.2023. Containerization vs. Virtualization. Docker.
• 21.04.2023. Docker workshop. Git hosting services: GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab. Git flows: GitFlow, GitHub Flow, GitLab Flow.
• 28.04.2023. Docker workshop.
• 05.05.2023. Build messenger on Node.js, Websockets and Vue.js (Quasar Framework).
• 12.05.2023. Learn Git Branching.
• 02.06.2023. Cloud technologies and virtual infrastructure management tools.
• 09.06.2023. The Go Programming Language.

Second Season

• 13.10.2023. Message Brokers: RabbitMQ and Kafka.
• 20.10.2023. Planning and Personal Productivity.
• 27.10.2023. Web Authentication: Basic, Cookies, OAuth, JWT.
• CI/CD. Running GitHub Actions on push to main.
• PostgreSQL vs ClickHouse.
• Algorithms and Data Structures.
• TypeScript. Node.js.
• Caching: client-side and server-side.

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