The 2023 Backend Developer and Roadmap

Mohit Singh
3 min readJan 15, 2023
what is backend-development

What is back-end development? : Back-end development means working on server-side software, which focuses on everything you can’t see on a website. Back-end developers ensure the website performs correctly, focusing on databases, back-end logic, application programming interface (APIs), architecture, and servers.

You should have some knowledge before learning Backend Development.

There are some prerequisites →

  1. Internet
  2. Programming Language
  3. Version Control System

For all of this, you can check out this article :

Programming Language :

Learn programming languages from the Best Sources

There are some good programming languages to start as a backend developer.

Some of the Programming languages are :

Java, Javascript, Go, Rust, C#, Python, PHP, Ruby.

for all programming language Reading and watching sources. Please check out below article :

Version Control Systems :

Version Control System (Git)

Version control is the software tool that helps in recording our code changes.

We know that a software product is developed by a software development team. So version control system to keep modification change of all teams more efficiently.

Learn about the version control systems and move forward.

Operating System

Operating System — Tutorial

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware, and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

As a Backend-Developer you should have some sort of knowledge of Operating Systems. We Contain most of the best resources. For sort general knowledge, check out the following topics :

  1. Basic Terminal Commands — Article & Video
  2. What is an Operating System — Article & Video
  3. Memory Management Article
  4. Interprocess communication — Article & Video
  5. I/O Management — Article & Video
  6. Basic Networking Overview — Article & Video
  7. **Threads and Concurrency — Article & Video
  8. **Process Management — Article & Video

Relational Databases — [Link]

It is a type of database that can stores, provide access to the data points and that are related to each other.

  • Data stored in Table
  • Each row contains a unique id which is a key
  • column of the table that holds the attributes of the data

In industry, there are some of the most used relational database management systems (DBMS) :

  1. PostgreSQL — Article & Video
  2. MySQL — Article & Video

Both of two are used in the industry heavily. Click on Link and Learn about them.

NoSQL Database — [Link]

NoSQL databases (aka “not only SQL”) are non-tabular databases and store data differently than relational tables. NoSQL databases come in a variety of types based on their data model. The main types are document, key-value, wide-column, and graph.

NoSQL database is kind of way :

Document DBs
Type of a database store, retrieve, and manage data in the form of JSON documents.

Realtime
A real-time database is a database system that uses real-time processing to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing. This differs from traditional databases containing persistent data, mostly unaffected by time. For example, a stock market changes very rapidly and is dynamic.

More Information about Databases

Databases are the information that set up easy access, update, and management.
We have to follow some key points to manage the database.

  • ORMs — Article & Video
  • ACID — Article & video
  • Transaction — Article & video
  • N+1 Problem — Article & video
  • Normalization — Article & video
  • Failure Modes — Article & video
  • Profiling Performance — Article
  • Database Indexes — video
  • Data Replication — video
  • Sharding Strategies — video
  • CAP Theorem — video

About API’s

REST, or Representational State Transfer, is an architectural style for providing standards between computer systems on the web, making it easier for systems to communicate with each other.

There are some Topics to Learn :

Authentication: There are some Authentication Type

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Mohit Singh

Full Stack Software Developer | Notion Consultant | Productivity Learner