Roadmap for backend from first principles

This is the first video in the series "Backend from first principles", here I go through all the topics that we are going to cover for the rest of the series, so that everyone has a fair idea what to expect. Join the Discord community: https://discord.gg/NXuybNcvVH 00:00 - Roadmap intro 02:22 - A high-level understanding 02:51 - HTTP protocol 04:25 - Routing 05:04 - Serialisation and deserialisation 07:13 - Authentication and authorisation 08:45 - Validation and transformation 12:03 - Middlewares 14:03 - Request context 15:28 - Handlers, controllers and services 15:45 - CRUD deepdive 16:33 - RESTful architecture and best practices 17:08 - Databases 17:44 - Business logic layer (BLL) 18:51 - Caching 20:04 - Transactional emails 20:19 - Task queuing and scheduling 21:35 - Elasticsearch 22:33 - Error handling 23:16 - Config management 24:07 - Logging, monitoring and observability 25:13 - Graceful shutdown 25:50 - Security 26:23 - Scaling and performance 27:36 - Concurrency and parallelism 27:47 - Object storage and large files 27:59 - Real-time backend systems 28:06 - Testing and code quality 28:50 - 12 factor app 28:55 - OpenAPI standards 29:58 - Webhooks 30:39 - DevOps for backend engineers #backend #nodejs #golang #softwareengineering