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Advanced Backend Engineering

Production-grade end-to-end backend mastery — from networking basics to scaling, DevOps, and AI systems.

75 units 58.4h Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced

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Curriculum

75 chapters

L0 - Internet Foundations

7 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — How the Internet Works

Beginner15m 2

Chapter 2 — Client–Server Architecture

Beginner12m 3

Chapter 3 — HTTP & HTTPS Deep Dive

Beginner

20m

4

Chapter 4 — APIs, REST, and JSON

Beginner15m

5

Chapter 5 — Authentication Basics

Beginner15m

6

Chapter 6 — Databases Overview

Beginner15m

7

Chapter 7 — Backend Architecture & Request Lifecycle

Beginner20m

L1 - Backend Fundamentals

11 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — What Is Backend Development?

Beginner10m 2

Chapter 2 — Environment Setup

Beginner15m 3

Chapter 3 — Your First Server

Beginner15m 4

Chapter 4 — Routing & HTTP Methods

Beginner15m 5

Chapter 5 — Middleware Deep Dive

Beginner20m 6

Chapter 6 — CRUD & REST API Design

Beginner20m 7

Chapter 7 — Request Validation & Error Handling

Intermediate18m 8

Chapter 8 — Environment Variables & Configuration

Intermediate12m 9

Chapter 9 — Logging & Debugging

Intermediate15m 10

Chapter 10 — API Testing

Intermediate12m P1

Project P1 — Notes & Todo API

Intermediate120m

L2 - Databases Deep Dive

10 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — Database Fundamentals

Intermediate18m 2

Chapter 2 — PostgreSQL for Backend

Intermediate20m 3

Chapter 3 — MongoDB Fundamentals

Intermediate18m 4

Chapter 4 — Database Design & Normalization

Intermediate20m 5

Chapter 5 — Relationships, Joins & References

Intermediate18m 6

Chapter 6 — Indexes & Query Optimization

Advanced22m 7

Chapter 7 — Transactions & ACID

Advanced20m 8

Chapter 8 — ORMs: Prisma, Drizzle, Mongoose

Intermediate20m 9

Chapter 9 — Migrations & Schema Evolution

Advanced20m 10

Chapter 10 — Database Scaling Basics

Advanced20m

L3 - Authentication Security

10 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — Authentication vs Authorization

Intermediate12m 2

Chapter 2 — Password Hashing

Intermediate18m 3

Chapter 3 — JWT Deep Dive

Advanced25m 4

Chapter 4 — Session-Based Auth

Intermediate18m 5

Chapter 5 — OAuth & Social Login

Advanced22m 6

Chapter 6 — RBAC & Permissions

Advanced20m 7

Chapter 7 — Web Security: CSRF, CORS, XSS, SQLi

Advanced25m 8

Chapter 8 — API Security & Rate Limiting

Advanced18m 9

Chapter 9 — Secrets Management & Encryption

Advanced18m P2

Chapter 10 — Project P2 — Complete Auth System

Advanced240m

L4 - Advanced Backend

12 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — Architecture Patterns

Advanced20m 2

Chapter 2 — WebSockets & Real-Time

Advanced22m 3

Chapter 3 — Background Jobs & Queues

Advanced22m 4

Chapter 4 — Caching with Redis

Advanced22m 5

Chapter 5 — File Uploads & Object Storage

Advanced20m 6

Chapter 6 — Search Systems

Advanced20m 7

Chapter 7 — Pagination & Filtering Patterns

Advanced15m 8

Chapter 8 — API Versioning & Documentation

Intermediate15m 9

Chapter 9 — Microservices vs Monolith

Advanced20m 10

Chapter 10 — Event-Driven Architecture

Advanced22m P3

Chapter 11 — Project P3 — E-Commerce Backend

Advanced300m P4

Chapter 12 — Project P4 — Chat Backend

Advanced240m

L5 - Scaling Production

9 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling

Advanced15m 2

Chapter 2 — Load Balancing & Reverse Proxies

Advanced20m 3

Chapter 3 — Distributed Systems & CAP Theorem

Advanced22m 4

Chapter 4 — Database Replication & Sharding

Advanced22m 5

Chapter 5 — Caching at Scale

Advanced20m 6

Chapter 6 — Queue Systems & Resilience

Advanced20m 7

Chapter 7 — Observability: Monitoring, Logging, Tracing

Advanced22m 8

Chapter 8 — Case Studies: Netflix, Uber, Stripe

Advanced25m P5

Chapter 9 — Project P5 — Scalable SaaS Backend

Advanced480m

L6 - Devops Deployment

9 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — Linux Basics for Backend

Intermediate18m 2

Chapter 2 — Docker Fundamentals

Intermediate20m 3

Chapter 3 — Docker Compose: Multi-Container Apps

Intermediate18m 4

Chapter 4 — CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Advanced22m 5

Chapter 5 — Nginx Reverse Proxy

Advanced18m 6

Chapter 6 — SSL, Domains, and DNS

Intermediate18m 7

Chapter 7 — Cloud Deployment

Advanced22m 8

Chapter 8 — Production Debugging & Incidents

Advanced20m P6

Chapter 9 — Project P6 — Full Deployment Pipeline

Advanced360m

L7 - Ai Modern Backend

7 chapters

1

Chapter 1 — AI APIs & LLM Integration

Advanced20m 2

Chapter 2 — Embeddings & Vector Databases

Advanced22m 3

Chapter 3 — Streaming AI Responses

Advanced18m 4

Chapter 4 — RAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Advanced25m 5

Chapter 5 — AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems

Advanced22m 6

Chapter 6 — AI Security, Cost & Architecture

Advanced20m P7

Chapter 7 — Project P7 — AI-Powered Backend with RAG

Advanced480m

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