Backend from first principles

1. Roadmap for backend from first principles

2. Walk the path of a true backend engineer

3. What is a Backend, how do they work and why do we need them?

4. Benefits of learning backend engineering from first principles

5. Understanding HTTP for backend engineers, where it all starts

6. What is Routing in Backend? How Requests Find Their Way Home

7. Serialization and Deserialization for backend engineers

8. Authentication and authorization for backend engineers

9. Validations and transformations for backend engineers

10. What are controllers, services, repositories, middlewares and request context?

11. Complete REST API Design

12. Mastering Databases with Postgres

13. Caching, the secret behind it all

14. Task queues and background jobs

15. Full text search using Elasticsearch for blazingly fast search

16. Error Handling and Building Fault Tolerant Systems

17. Production-grade Configuration Management

18. Logging, Monitoring and Observability

19. Graceful Shutdown

20. Backend Security: Everything You Need to Know

21.1. Backend Scaling and Performance Engineering: Part-1

21.2. Backend Scaling and Performance Engineering: Part-2

22. Concurrency & Parallelism: IO Bound vs CPU Bound

23. Object Storage - Everything You Need to Know: Part -1

24. Object Storage - Everything You Need to Know: Part - 2

25. Real-Time Backends

26. Testing for Backend Engineers: mocks, TDD and coverage

27. The Twelve-Factor App