Backend Course. Contents

Stage 0. Self-Study

The online stage of Backend Course. Following tasks should be completed at home to participate in offline stage. Learn more in README. Tasks marked with :abc: emoji are language-specific. All other tasks are mostly language-independent.

1. Git Basics
2. Unix Shell
3. VCS (hello gitty), GitHub and Collaboration
4. Language-specific Topics: Part I :abc:
5. Memory Management
6. TCP, UDP, Network :abc:
7. HTTP & HTTPs
8. Design Patterns: Intro
9. Data Structures :abc:
10. File System
11. Runtime, Ecosystem and I/O :abc:
12. Databases
13. Language-specific Topics: Part II :abc:

Stage 1. Main Course

1. Backend Applications Architecture: Intro
2. Environment
3. Language-specific Topics: Advanced
4. HTTP Server From Scratch
5. DYI Framework: Wrapper around HTTP module
6. DYI Framework: Routing
7. DYI Framework: Middleware
8. Database Interaction Patterns: DAO, Repository, ActiveRecord
9. Databases & SQL: Advanced Topics
10. NoSQL Data Bases
11. Design Patterns in Backend Applications (MVC etc.)
12. Security & Auth
13. Testing. CI & CD. Containerization.
14. Profiling, Load Testing, Logging.
15. Background Tasks & Delayed Execution