Backend Roadmap — Table of Contents

Introduction

Hello, you are in the table of contents of my series, where I explain the Backend Roadmap main headings and subheadings in roadmap.sh as best I can. You should keep in mind that I prepared/I am preparing this series primarily to learn it myself. First I will learn it, then I will explain it. If you know better than me and notice my mistakes, please share it with me and other readers!

Internet

• 1 — How does the internet work?
• 2 — What is HTTP?
• 3 — What is Domain Name?
• 4 — What is hosting?
• 5 — DNS and how it works?
• 5 — Browsers and how they work?

Pick a Language

• 1 — Which language to go for Backend Development?

Version Control Systems

• 1 — What is Git?

Repo Hosting Services

• 1 — What’s GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket?

Relational Databases

• 1 — What is a Relational Database?
• 2 — Which Database to pick? MySQL, PostgreSQL and more.

Learn about APIs

• 1 — REST
• 2 — REST with Basic Authentication
• 3 — What is Token Authentication?
• 4 — What is Cookie Based Authentication?
• 5 — CSRF and XSS risks and preventions
• 6 — What is JWT?
• 7 — What is OAuth?
• 8 — GraphQL

Caching

• 1 — Server Side Caching
• 2 — What is CDN?
• 3 — Client Side Caching

Web Security

• 1 — What is MD5?
• 2 — What is SHA?
• 3 — introduction to sCrypt
• 3 — Understanding bcrypt

Testing

CI/CD

More about Databases

Scaling Databases

Architecture Patterns

Design and development Principles

Containerization vs. Virtualization

Message Brokers

Search Engines

Web Servers

Real-Time Data

NoSQL Databases

Building For Scale