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Roadmap for backend from first principles
Walk the path of a true backend engineer
What is a Backend, how do they work and why do we need them
Benefits of learning backend engineering from first principles
Understanding HTTP for backend engineers, where it all starts
What is Routing in Backend How Requests Find Their Way Home
Serialization and Deserialization for backend engineers
Authentication and authorization for backend engineers
Validations and transformations for backend engineers
What are controllers, services, repositories, middlewares and request context
Complete REST API Design
Mastering Databases with Postgres
Caching, the secret behind it all
Task queues and background jobs
Full text search using Elasticsearch for blazingly fast search
Error Handling and Building Fault Tolerant Systems
Production-grade Configuration Management
Logging, Monitoring and Observability
Graceful Shutdown
Backend Security Everything You Need to Know
Concurrency & Parallelism IO Bound vs CPU Bound
1. Backend Scaling and Performance Engineering Part-1
2. Backend Scaling and Performance Engineering Part-2
Version Introduction

Version Introduction

Version Introduction

Welcome to Backend Engineering Version 1.

2. Backend Scaling and Performance Engineering Part-2

Curriculum

Roadmap
System Design

Community

GitHub

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