Backend Engineer Fundamentals

A list of subjects for junior engineer to study.

Communication Protocals

1. IP, TCP, UDP, HTTP
   • https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computers-and-internet/xcae6f4a7ff015e7d:the-internet
2. Websocket
   • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNxK8fPKstc
3. HTTP
   • HTTP/2: https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/http2
4. gRPC
   • https://grpc.io/docs/what-is-grpc/introduction/

Web Servers

1. Threading
2. Different Servers
   • NodeJs
   • Apache Tomcat
   • Apache Web server
   • Nginx
3. Edge web servers

Database

1. SQL
2. NoSQL
3. ACID
   • Atomicity
   • Consistency
   • Isolation
   • Durability

Proxy

1. Proxies and Reverse Proxy
   • Caching layer
   • Load balancer
   • TLS Termination
   • Anything that makes request on behalf of a client
2. Service meshes

Cache

1. Stateful vs Stateless
2. ...

Messaging System

1. Kafka, RabbitMq, 0q

API Web Frameworks

Message Formats

Security