Roadmap for becoming Back-End Developer in 2022

Here are the roadmap for becoming Back-End Developer point wise

Roadmap for becoming Back-End Developer in 2022

Learn the basics of Internet

1. How does the internet work?

2. What is HTTP & HTTPS?

3. What is Domain Name?

4. What is IP Address?

5. DNS and how it works?

6. What is hosting?

7. What is SMTP?

Basics of front-end languages

1. HTML

2. CSS

3. JavaScript

Learn a back-end language

1. PHP

2. NodeJS

3. Ruby On Rails

4. Python

5. Go

5. C#

Just learn anyone of the above language but make sure you have in-depth understanding of that language.

I will recommend NodeJs or PHP.

Learn Version Control System

1. Basic Git Commands

2. Repo hosting services

I. GitHub

II. Gitlab

III. Bitbucket

Learn about Relational Databases

1. MySQL

2. PostgreSQL

3. MariaDB

4. MS SQL

5. Oracle

MySQL is the most popular one.

Learn about NoSQL databases

1. MongoDB

2. RethinkDB

3. CouchDB

4. DynamoDB

NoSQL are very popular databases. Many startups are opting for NoSQL databases instead of SQL databases.

Learn About APIs

1. REST

2. JSON APIs

3. HATOAS

4. Open API Spec and Swagger

5. Authentication

6. GraphQL

Learn about caching

1. CDN (Cloud Delivery Network)

2. Server-side caching

I. Redis

II. Memcached

3. Client-side caching

Web Servers

1. Nginx

2. Apache

3. Reverse Proxy

Understand web security

1. Hashing Algorithm

I. MD5

II. SHA Family

III. Scrypt

IV. Bcrypt

2. HTTPS

3. CORS

4. SSL/TLS

Learn testing

1. Integration Testing

2. Unit Testing

3. Functional Testing

Containerization / Virtualization

1. Docker

2. Kubernetes

3. rkt

Architectural Patterns

1. Monolithic

2. Microservices

3. Serverless

4. Scaling (Horizontal & Vertical)

5. Load Balancers

Roadmap for becoming Back-End Developer in 2022