Web Backend Developer

Who? The person who develops the core of web sites. On contrary to Front End developers, who work on User Interface (what we normally see), the work of backend developer pushes gears under the hood. However, the job is very vesatile and provides many opportunities for creative thinking and innovating.

How to become? Most programming languages suitable for web developement, have mainstream web frameworks. Pick one you like and start learning the programming language simulteniously developing simple web-site. Basic understanding of internet principles is encouraged. Next proceed to data processing (SQL, files) - it will allow you to build simple interactive websites. General understanding of authorization/authentication algorithms would be profitable. Once you will confident with your basic skills or unsatisfied with performance of your site, you could move to more complex topics like caching, optimizations, balance loading etc.

Track your progress by checking the skills below. You will see what other alternatives are open to you and where to read/watch about given skill. Switch to graphical view (roadmap) if you prefer picutures to texts

Internet Security

Web Application Security Threats

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)

Same-origin security policy

Collaboration skills

Teamwork

Intellectual property

Scaling & optimizations

Cloud technologies

Performance Optimization

High Availability Principles

Software Development Life Cycle

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Software Development Management Frameworks

Software Testing Techniques

Containers

Version Control Systems

Runtime environment

Linux Developer

Windows Developer

Operating Systems

Web Servers

Working with data

Data transfer

Data retrieval

Data Formats

Programming skills

User Interface Disign Patterns

Multithreading

Program architecture

Backend Programming Language

Internet organization

IP Network

DNS

IP Address

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