Backend Developer

Learning & Roadmaps

Shell, scripting, editor: the tools no course teaches but every day uses.

Practice & Challenges

Branching and merging, visually: the prerequisite for working in a team.

Databases

Your data has to live somewhere: a relational database, with PostgreSQL.

Databases

Before your queries slow down: how an index actually works.

Backend, API & System Design

Your first API: an approachable Python framework that turns type hints into docs.

Backend, API & System Design

The same job on the JavaScript side: the event loop and async I/O.

Backend, API & System Design

Writing the API contract down: docs and clients from OpenAPI.

Testing & QA

Exercising the API by hand and automatically; handing it over as a collection.

DevOps & Infrastructure

Not asking the database the same thing twice: caching and queues.

DevOps & Infrastructure

The reverse proxy in front of your app: TLS, load balancing, static files.

Backend, API & System Design

As the code grows: design patterns and refactoring, with examples.

DevOps & Infrastructure

Finding out what broke in production before your users tell you.

Backend, API & System Design

Beyond one server: scaling, consistency and trade-offs.

Backend, API & System Design

Reading on the long-term cost of architectural decisions.