Backend Engineering roadmap

Backend Engineering courses

Follow the Backend Engineering roadmap from programming foundations through practical backend development and toward distributed systems, reliability, scaling, and system design.

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Backend Engineering

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Start at the stage that matches your current foundation and continue through the roadmap in sequence.

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AvailableAdvanced
Advanced Backend Engineering

Design, build, scale, and operate reliable production backend systems.

Go beyond building APIs and learn how production backend systems are actually designed and operated. This advanced course covers distributed systems, data consistency, Kafka, caching, resilience, observability, SLOs, performance engineering, Kubernetes, safe deployments, and architectural decision-making using Java and Spring Boot.

AvailableIntermediate
Backend Development with Java & Spring Boot

Build a production-style Java backend with Spring Boot while learning real-world engineering practices, from requirements and RFCs to testing, deployment, and production incidents.

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