Fundamentals of Backend Engineering

Understand backend communication design patterns, protocols, execution and proxying

Created by: Hussein Nasser
Software Engineer, Author

What Will I Learn?

• Learn the fundamentals of backend engineering
• Backend communication design patterns
• Understand how backend communication protocols work
• Comprehend how OS Kernel communicate with Backend Applications
• Operating System fundamentals (Thread, Process, async IO in linux)
• Learn HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3
• Learn gRPC, WebRTC, WebSockets
• Learn TLS 1.2, TLS 1.3, QUIC 0RTT

Requirements

• Intermediate programming skills (1-2 years)
• Having built a backend application
• Basic network fundamentals

Target audience

• Backend Engineers
• FullStack Engineers
• Frontend Engineers interested in the Backend (must have built a backend app)
• Network engineers who want to get better at backend design
• Site reliability engineers