Python Backend Developer Roadmap

This roadmap is intended for junior software engineers in my company or newcomers in my team for onboarding purposes. Generally, this is for Python Backend Web Developer with a speciality in Instant Messager using Matrix.

1. Basic Internet, Operating System and Frontend Knowledge

1.1 Bash/Terminal

• SSH
• "Mastering Linux shell scripting a practical guide to Linux command- line, Bash scripting, and Shell programming"

1.2 Basic Internet

• DNS
• Domain
• Hosting
• Cloud service
• resources
  • DNS & Domain
  • Cloud & Hosting

1.3 Web server

• Nginx, Apache, Tomcat
• Reverse Proxy
• Load balancer
• WSGI & ASGI
• Resources
  • Nginx
  • Reverse Proxy
  • Load Balancer
  • WSGI & ASGI

2. Programming language (Python)

2.1 Basic Data Structure & Algorithm

• Resources
  • Python Basic
  • Data Structure with Python

2.2 Python2 vs Python3

• Resource
  • Python2 vs python3

2.3 OOP

• class
• Inheritance
• etc..
• resources
  • Python 3 Object Oriented Programming

2.4 Python data type

• list

• queue

• stack

• tree

• dictionary

• tuple

• hash map

• set

• Resources

  • Python Basic

2.5 Environment & environment manager

• pip
• env & venv
• conda
• resources
  • python environment manager
  • env
  • conda cheat sheet

2.6 Python IDE

• Visual studio Code
• Pycharm
• Sublime
• Text Editor

2.7 SOLID Principe

• Solid principe with python

2.8 Python Framework (web)

• FastAPI
• Flask
• Django

2.9 Unit Testing

• pytest
• Unittest

2.10 Important Library

• numpy
• requests
• socket.io
• psycopg2
• bcrypt
• aioredis
• stomp.py
• json
• asyncio
• time
• logging
• typing
• sqlalchemy
• gunicorn
• urllib
• matrix_client
• matrix-nio
• pyyaml
• pandas
• pytest

2.11 Python ASGI

• gunicorn
• uvicorn

2.12 Data Model

• ORM (Object Relational Mapping)
  • SQLAlchemy
• Resources
  • ORM

2.9 Advanced Concept

• Decorator / Property (@) tutorial tutorial2
• Synchronous & Asynchronous Asyncio Python
• Multithreading python Multithreading
• python modules modules & package

3. Version Control

3.1 Git/Github

• resources
  • Git documentation
  • "Pragmatic version control using Git"

4. Database

4.1 Posgresql

• Resource
  • Postgresql tutorial

4.2 Databse Index

4.3 SQL (Query Language) tutorial

4.4 Normalization

4.5 ACID

4.6 ORM

4.7 NoSQL

• MongoDB
• Elastic Search
• InfluxDB
• DynamoDB

5. APIs

5.1 Rest API

5.2 Json

5.3 GraphQL

6. Caching

6.1 In Memory caching

• Redis tutorial Redis python
• memcached

6.2 Content caching

• CDN

7. Testing

7.1 Unit testing

7.2 Tools

• pytest
• unittest
• Postman

8. CI / CD

8.1 Version Control

8.2 Github/Gitlab

8.3 CI/CD tools

• github action
• jenkins
• travis

9. Architectural Patterns

9.1 Monolithic

9.2 Microservice

9.3 Patterns

• SAGA
• Circuit breaker

9.4 Design Pattern

• Singleton

• Strategy

• Command

• Observer

• Resources

  • [Design Pattern]https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns

10. Message Broker

10.1 Communication concept

• Producer & consumer
• publisher & subscriber
• topic
• queue

10.2 Engine

• ActiveMQ
• RabbitMQ
• Kafka

11. Containerization

11.1 Docker

11.2 Kubernetes

12. Authentication

12.1 JWT

12.2 OAuth2

12.3 hash function

• sha
• bcrypt

13. Communication Protocol

13.1 Websocket

13.2 TCP

13.3 STOMP

13.4 WEbRTC

13.5 Http Request

13.6 gRPC

14. Monitoring

14.1 Engine

• Grafana
• Datadog
• Prometheus
• Sentry