7/11/24, 8:27 PM Backend Developer Roadmap: What is Backend Development?
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roadmap.sh
Visit Beginner Friendly Version
Backend
How does the internet work?
What is HTTP?
JavaScript Go
Internet What is Domain Name?
Python Ruby
What is hosting?
Java C#
DNS and how it works?
PHP Rust Pick a Language
Browsers and how they work?
Git
GitHub
GitLab Version Control Systems
MySQL
MariaDB
Repo Hosting Services PostgreSQL
MS SQL
Bitbucket Relational Databases Oracle
SQLite
Redis HATEOAS
Memcached Open API Specs Authentication
JWT OAuth
Server Side Caching Learn about APIs
Basic Authentication
CDN
REST Token Authentication
Client Side
JSON APIs Cookie Based Auth
SOAP gRPC OpenID SAML
In-depth Observability
MD5
GraphQL Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry
combine to give you the most
Integration Testing
SHA
detailed and actionable insights
scrypt Web Security Testing Unit Testing
TIP Right-click on a topic to mark it as done.
bcrypt Functional Testing
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Hashing Algorithms
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CI / CD
ORMs
HTTPS OWASP Risks
ACID
CORS SSL/TLS
Transactions
CSP Server Security More about Databases
N+1 Problem
API Security Best Practices
Normalization
Failure Modes
Database Indexes Scaling Databases
Profiling Perfor.
Data Replication
Sharding Strategies
Software Design & Architecture Architectural Patterns
CAP Theorem
Monolithic Apps
GOF Design Patterns Design and Development Principles
Microservices
Domain Driven Design
SOA
Test Driven Development
Serverless
CQRS
Docker
Service Mesh
Event Sourcing
LXC Twelve Factor Apps
Kubernetes Containerization vs Virtualization
Nginx
Apache Web Servers Search Engines Message Brokers
Caddy Elasticsearch RabbitMQ
MS IIS Solr Kafka
Document DBs Key-Value Real-Time Data Server Sent Events
In-depth Observability
MongoDB Redis WebSockets
Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry
DynamoDB GraphQL
combine to give you
Long the most
Polling
CouchDB
detailed and actionable insights
Short Polling
Realtime
TIP Right-click on a topic to mark it as done.
Firebase
NoSQL Databases PARTNER CONTENT
RethinkDB
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Graceful Degradation
Time Series Column DBs Graph DBs Throttling
Influx DB Cassandra Neo4j Backpressure
TimeScale Base AWS Neptune Loadshifting
Circuit Breaker
Mitigation Strategies
Visit the DevOps Beginner Roadmap
Basic Infrastructure Knowledge Building For Scale Migration Strategies
Types of Scaling
Difference & Usage
Metrics logging and other
observable items that can
Instrumentation
help in debugging and
solving Issues when things
Monitoring
go wrong.
Telemetry Observability
Have a look at the following relevant tracks
DevOps Full Stack
Frequently Asked Questions
How to become a Backend Developer?
If you are a complete beginner who is just getting started, you can start by learning a backend
programming language such as Python, Ruby, Java, Go etc. Once you have got the basic to
intermediate understanding of the language, learn about the package manager for that
language and learn how to install and use external packages into your applications. Learn the
basics of some relational database e.g. PostgreSQL and learn how to run simple
In-depth CRUD
Observability
operations. Optionally, you can pick up and learn a web frameworkHoneycomb
for the language of your
and OpenTelemetry
choice as well. Learn how to build a simple RESTful API and implement simple
combine to give you the most
Authentication/Authorization into it. While you are learning all the detailed and actionable
items mentioned insights
above,
don't forget to learn about Git and GitHub as well.
TIP Right-click on a topic to mark it as done.
After following all the instructions above, you can start applying for the entry level backend
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developer jobs. Also, look at the backend developer roadmap above to get an idea about the
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