Master the Fundamentals to Become a Skilled Backend Engineer 🚀
Learn the essential concepts and fundamentals you need to excel as a backend engineer. This guide focuses on core principles, not just tools, to help you build a strong foundation in backend development.

Hussein Nasser
584.4K views • Mar 19, 2020

About this video
In this video, I discuss the path of becoming a backend engineer through concepts and fundamentals. These are not tools 🧰 these are backend concepts and fundamentals technologies.
Here is a Playlist that might help you in your Journey in your Backend Engineering career.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQUNnO4p00ua_C5mKTfldiYT
Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:30 Communication Protocols
8:40 Web Servers
11:00 Database Engineering
13:31 Proxies
15:40 Caching
18:30 Web Frameworks Runtime
19:24 Message Formats
20:50 Security
Frontend dedicated Channels recommended in this video at minute 7, @bawad @TraversyMedia @WebDevSimplified
Details
- TCP,UDP
- QUIC
- HTTP
- WebSockets
- gRPC
- Web Servers
- How web servers work?
- Dynamic vs Static Content
- E-Tags
- HTTP protocol
- Relational vs NoSQL
- ACID
- Proxies (Reverse Proxies, Load balancer)
- What is difference between Proxy vs Reverse Proxy
- Layer 7 Proxy vs Layer 4 Proxy
- Reverse Proxy applications
- Load Balancing algorithms
- Caching
- When to use Caching
- Message queue, Pub/Sub
- When to use PubSub messaging first queue.
- Web Frameworks (API authoring)
- Express, Django, Node JS
- Message Formats (JSON, protobuf)
- JSON & protobuf
- Security
- TLS, Encryption, Firewalls
Backend Engineering Videos
https://backend.husseinnasser.com
🏭 Software Architecture Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXNP6mQchJVP3S-3oKGEuw9
💾 Database Engineering Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXjD0HOzN7P2tgzu7scWpl2
🛰 Network Engineering Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQUBSgBXilKhRMJ1ACqr7pTr
🏰 Load Balancing and Proxies Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQVMeBmWI2AhxULWEeo7AaMC
🐘 Postgres Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWGrOqslniFlRcwxyY94cjj
🚢Docker
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWsD-rakNw1C20c1JI8UR1r
🧮 Programming Pattern Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQV1emqxKbcP5esAf4zpqWpe
🛡 Web Security Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQU3YDMRSMvzflh_qXoz9zfv
🦠 HTTP Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQU6zO0drAYHFtkkyfNJw1IO
🐍 Python Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQU_M83ARz8mDdr4LThzkBKX
🔆 Javascript Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWab0g3W6ZaDM6_Buh20EWM
👾Discord Server https://discord.gg/CsFbFce
Support me on PayPal
https://bit.ly/33ENps4
Become a Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/join/hnasr?
Stay Awesome,
Hussein
Here is a Playlist that might help you in your Journey in your Backend Engineering career.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQUNnO4p00ua_C5mKTfldiYT
Chapters
0:00 Intro
3:30 Communication Protocols
8:40 Web Servers
11:00 Database Engineering
13:31 Proxies
15:40 Caching
18:30 Web Frameworks Runtime
19:24 Message Formats
20:50 Security
Frontend dedicated Channels recommended in this video at minute 7, @bawad @TraversyMedia @WebDevSimplified
Details
- TCP,UDP
- QUIC
- HTTP
- WebSockets
- gRPC
- Web Servers
- How web servers work?
- Dynamic vs Static Content
- E-Tags
- HTTP protocol
- Relational vs NoSQL
- ACID
- Proxies (Reverse Proxies, Load balancer)
- What is difference between Proxy vs Reverse Proxy
- Layer 7 Proxy vs Layer 4 Proxy
- Reverse Proxy applications
- Load Balancing algorithms
- Caching
- When to use Caching
- Message queue, Pub/Sub
- When to use PubSub messaging first queue.
- Web Frameworks (API authoring)
- Express, Django, Node JS
- Message Formats (JSON, protobuf)
- JSON & protobuf
- Security
- TLS, Encryption, Firewalls
Backend Engineering Videos
https://backend.husseinnasser.com
🏭 Software Architecture Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXNP6mQchJVP3S-3oKGEuw9
💾 Database Engineering Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXjD0HOzN7P2tgzu7scWpl2
🛰 Network Engineering Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQUBSgBXilKhRMJ1ACqr7pTr
🏰 Load Balancing and Proxies Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQVMeBmWI2AhxULWEeo7AaMC
🐘 Postgres Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWGrOqslniFlRcwxyY94cjj
🚢Docker
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWsD-rakNw1C20c1JI8UR1r
🧮 Programming Pattern Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQV1emqxKbcP5esAf4zpqWpe
🛡 Web Security Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQU3YDMRSMvzflh_qXoz9zfv
🦠 HTTP Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQU6zO0drAYHFtkkyfNJw1IO
🐍 Python Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQU_M83ARz8mDdr4LThzkBKX
🔆 Javascript Videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWab0g3W6ZaDM6_Buh20EWM
👾Discord Server https://discord.gg/CsFbFce
Support me on PayPal
https://bit.ly/33ENps4
Become a Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/join/hnasr?
Stay Awesome,
Hussein
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Published
Mar 19, 2020
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