🗺️ Personal Roadmap

References and things to learn.

• Backend Roadmap
• Architect Roadmap

General books

• 📚The Pragmatic Programmer
• 📚Software Engineering at Google
• 📝Clean Code: read a summary, avoid the book

Version Control (Git)

✨Cheatsheet

• 📺Git for Poets
• 🔒️Generate and add SSH key
• 📝Github Quickstart
• 🌐Git Flow / Github Flow / Gitmoji

Python 💼

https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2021

Basics

✨Cheatsheet

Download Python and Visual Studio Code with the Python extension.

Start with single file scripts.

• 📚Introducing Python (2019): Basics, ignore everything after chapter 11
• 📝Basic OOP
• 🥋Practice Codewards: checkout other solutions after submitting
• 🎨Skim through pep8
• ⚡️Learn a bit of DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms): do easy in neetcode

Advanced

Switch to PyCharm once you are familiar with the syntax and concepts such as virtualenvs, git, etc.

• 📚Read:
  • Fluent Python (2022): comprehensions, dataclasses, Type Hints, Protocol, etc.
  • Architecture Patterns with Python: DDD, CQRS, Event-Driver Architecture, etc.
• 📺Watch:
  • ArjanCodes: Advanced, refactoring videos are great.
  • mCoding: Trivia, watch popular videos.
• 📝StackOverflow Questions: should know the answers to the most voted questions.

• ⚡️Concurrency:
  • Why Learn Python Concurrency
  • How to Choose the Right Concurrency API
• 🧪Learn about testing
• 🔄Task queues: Celery / arq
• 🔧CI Tools (sample precommit): MyPy, Black, isort, flake8, pip-audit, bandit.
• 🧰Learn about Design Patterns in python, don’t go too crazy.
• 👀Checkout some Open Source projects, better if you have used them before:
  • arrow: highly recommended
  • requests and httpx: probably familiar with them
  • arq: small modern project, take a good look at every file

Terminal

• 📝Command Line Crash Course
• 📚The Linux Command Line

Databases

SQL

ORMs are great, but you should know how to use raw SQL.

• 📚Practical SQL
• 📝w3schools
• 🥋Lintcode practice

NoSQL

• 📗MongoDB Manual
• 📕Redis Documentation

Containerization

• 🐋Docker for beginners
• 🎨Docker Best Practices
• ☸️Kubernetes Flask Guide

Web Development

Basics

• How does the Internet work?
• What is a web server?
• What is HTTP?
• Inspect network activity

Advanced

• Twelve-factor app
• Authentication reddit post

Web Frameworks & Examples

Python

Deploy using https://www.deta.sh/ or https://www.pythonanywhere.com/

• Django: tutorial
  • readthedocs: documentation hosting
  • sentry: monitoring platform
  • old mdn: kuma, old MDN
  • guya.moe: manga reading website
• Flask: tutorial
  • SimpleLogin
  • Apache Airflow
  • redash.io
  • sourcehut
• FastAPI: tutorial
  • TermPair
  • Dispatch
  • Mealie
  • Opal

NodeJS

• Express:
• Fastify:
• NestJS:
  • ToolJet
  • Novu
  • Amplication
  • Vendure

Rust

• Actix: tutorial for beginners
  • miniserve
  • mdn: superseeds kuma
• axum
  • roapi
  • restful template
  • realworld

Go

TODO

Java

TODO

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