As a backend engineer.
Please learn:
- System Design (scalability, microservices)
-APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)
-Database Systems (SQL, NoSQL)
-Distributed Systems (consistency, replication)
-Caching (Redis, Memcached)
-Security (OAuth2, JWT, encryption)
-DevOps (CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes)
-Performance Optimization (profiling, load balancing)
-Cloud Services (AWS, GCP, Azure)
-Monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana)
Pick up a language..
Stop jumping from one language to the other
Been building KafLite, my own Kafka-style message streaming system in Go and this diagram sums up how it all fits together.
From topics to partitions, everything now persists to disk and restores on startup.
Next step: consumer groups and load balancing
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