Backend Engineering

• 🗃️Database

Foundations

• Backend & Main Components Explained
• Web Pages VS Web Applications
• HTTP Fundamentals
• URLs and Endpoints
• JSON

API & Communication Protocols

• REST & General API Design
  • APIs
  • REST API
  • Basic guidelines for building APIs
  • Formatting API Requests
  • API performance metrics
  • API documentation (Spring REST DOCS, Swagger UI)
• Real-Time & Event-Driven
  • Real time communication
  • Websocket
  • Server-Sent Events (SSE)
  • Webhook
• Modern Alternatives (RPC & Query)
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC
• Consuming APIs (Client side / Testing)
  • Rest Client
  • Server-side API Requests + Axios
• Documentation
  • API documentation (Spring REST DOCS, Swagger UI)

Architecture Patterns

• Monolithic Structures
  • Layered Architecture (Spring)
  • Clean Architecture
  • Hexagonal Architecture
• Distributed Structures
  • Microservice Architecture (MSA)
  • Serverless Architectures & APIs
    • Supabase, Firebase

Backend Security

• Authentication & Authorization
• API Authentication
• Auth Strategies
  • Login Process with JWT (Includes Token)
  • Session + Cookies
  • OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

Tools & Frameworks (the tech stack)

• Node.js Ecosystem
  • Node.js
  • Nodemon
  • Express.js
    • Express middleware (bodyParser, Morgan)
    • Custom middleware
    • HTTP requests in Express
  • Next.js
• Infra and cloud services
  • Docker 🐳
  • Firebase
  • Supabase