Awesome Backend Engineer

EN A curated and opinionated list of resources (English & Russian) for Backend developers that will help you orginize & structure your learning path and knowledges. Inspired by Awesome CTO.

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Contents

• Basics
• Computer Science
• Web Development & Networking
• Databases
• Security
• Architecture & Infrastracture
• Related links
• Books

Basics

• Developer Roadmap
• How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals)
• Learn to become a Backend Developer (2018)
• Advice for beginner backend engineers who just started their new jobs in software companies

Computer Science

Main topics |
----------- | ---------- What is computer and how it works? | ? Why do we need programming languages? What types of programming languages are out there? | ? ? Algorithms & Data Structures |
OOP |
Concurrency & Parallelism |

Resouses ()

• What is Computer Science
• Map of Computer Science
• CS50 by Harvard. EN / RU
• Computer Science Crash Course
• How do computers read code?
• The Forgotten History of OOP
• Concurrency is not Parallelism
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Web Development & Networking

Main topics |
----------- | ---------- What is client-server architecture and HTTP? | - HTTP? What is TCP/IP? | TCP/IP? What is DNS? | DNS? How authorization & authentication works? What is JWT? | ? JWT? Proxy & Reverse Proxy |
Web servers. Nginx. | -. Nginx REST API Design Principles | REST API

Resouses ()

• Web Development In 2021 - A Practical Guide
• What is TCP/IP?
• Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Crash Course - HTTP 1.0, 1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3
• HTTP Crash Course & Exploration
• TCP vs UDP Crash Course
• REST API concepts and examples
• RESTful API
• 2 Hours NginX Crash Course + Bonus Content
• JWT - JSON Web Token Crash Course (NodeJS & Postgres)
• Proxy vs Reverse Proxy Server Explained
• How HTTP/2 Works, Performance, Pros & Cons and More
• How DNS Works - Computerphile
• gRPC Crash Course - Modes, Examples, Pros & Cons and more
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Databases

Main topics |
----------- | ---------- What are database and DBMS? | ? What is a relational database? What is SQL? | SQL? What are indexes & transactions? | ? What are ACID properties? Which Isolation levels are out there? | ACID? ? What are NoSQL Databases? What are the differences between NoSQL & SQL? | NoSQL? NoSQL SQL? What is databases normalization? | ?

Resouses ()

• What is a Database?
• What is Database & SQL?
• SQL Tutorial - Full Database Course for Beginners
• Database Design Course - Learn how to design and plan a database for beginners
• Database Indexing Explained (with PostgreSQL)
• SQL vs NoSQL or MySQL vs MongoDB
• Introduction to NoSQL databases
• MongoDB Basics
• MongoDB for SQL Pros
• ACID
• SQL PostgreSQL SELECT, JOIN, GROUP, HAVING, Coalesce .
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• " . Tarantool" (2018)
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Security

Main topics |
----------- | ---------- What is HTTPS and how does it work? | HTTPS ? What are main types of attacks and vulnurabilities in web applications? | -? What is SQL Injection? How to prevent it? | SQL ? ? What is XSS Attack? How to prevent it? | XSS ? ? How to store passwords/secrets in web app? | / ?

Resouses ()

• 9. Securing Web Applications
• How does HTTPS work? What's a CA? What's a self-signed Certificate?
• Password Cracking - Computerphile
• Running an SQL Injection Attack - Computerphile
• How NOT to Store Passwords! - Computerphile
• Cracking Websites with Cross Site Scripting - Computerphile
• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Explained
• Why LocalStorage is Vulnerable to XSS (and cookies are too)
• OWASP Cheat Sheat
• HTTPS?
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• ? . Django
• SQL-. ( 1)
• XSS-

Architecture & Infrastracture

Main topics |
----------- | ---------- What are distributed systems? | ? What is scaling? Horizontal vs Vertical scaling? How to scale web apps and databases? | ? vs ? - ? What is CAP Theorem? What are CP and AP systems? | CAP ? CP AP ? What are Microservices? What patterns do they use? How to design microservices architecture? | ? ? ? What is Event-Driven Architecture? | Event-Driven ? What is Clean Architecture? How to implement it using your programming language / framework? | ? / ? How to deploy web applications? What is VPS? What is SSH? | -? VPS? SSH? What is Docker? Why do we need it? | Docker? ? What are cloud providers? How do you use them? | ? How to automize testing & deployment? What is CI/CD? How to implement it? | ? CI/CD ? What is SSL Certificate? How to set it up for your web app? | SSL ? ? What is Kubernetes? When should you use it? | Kubernetes? What is DDD? | Domain Driven Design?

Resources ()

• Approaching Distributed Systems
• Scalable Web Architectures Concepts & Design
• How to Scale SQL and NoSQL Databases
• Scaling Your Web Application
• CAP Theorem in Distributed Systems
• How to Design a Web Application: Software Architecture 101
• Introduction to Microservices
• Microservice Architecture at Medium
• Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices
• GOTO 2020 When To Use Microservices (And When Not To!) Sam Newman & Martin Fowler
• Modern Banking in 1500 Microservices
• Managing Data in Microservices
• What is DDD - Eric Evans - DDD Europe 2019
• The Clean Architecture
• Learn Docker in 12 Minutes
• Docker Tutorial for Beginners - A Full DevOps Course on How to Run Applications in Containers
• What is a Multitenancy Architecture and Why Is it becoming popular?
• The Twelve-Factor App
• HighLoad
• CAP- ,
• LetsEncrypt SSL ?
• Debian Python/Django . ?
• Fullstack [Golang+JS]. I/CD, DigitalOcean, Github Actions
• Docker.
• Domain Driven Design
• SSH Linux / Unix
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• Going from Developer to CTO
• What Truly Makes a Senior Developer
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Books

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"Clean Architecture" by Robert Martin | " "
"Professional Software Development" by Steve McConnel |
"Building Microservices" by Sam Newman | " "
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