back-end-developer.md

Track for Backend Development with Python/DevOps

• Python

  • Django

    • (Official Django tutorial](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/intro/tutorial01/)

    • Django Girls Tutorial

  • Flask

    • Official Flask Tutorial

    • May be overkill but I would recommend going through the Quickstart docs as well

    • Miguel Grinberg's tutorial

  • Scrapy

  • Miscellaneous

    • pip

    • pdb (debugging in general)

  • Testing

    • Types of testing

      • Unit tests

      • Integration tests

    • Tools

      • pytest

      • tox

      • Mock

• Databases

  • SQL

    • PostgreSQL

    • MySQL/MariaDB

  • NoSQL

    • MongoDB

    • Cassandra

    • Couchbase

  • General Database Administration

    • Database Architecture (Design, Structure etc)

• App level Caching

  • Memcached

  • Redis

• REST:

  • Read Roy Fielding's paper

  • Create a Restful API

  • Try out the following forms of authentication/authorization:

    • OAuth

    • Basic Authentication

    • Token Authentication

    • JWT

    • OpenID

• Message Brokers:

  • RabbitMQ

  • Kafka

• Search Engine:

  • Elastic Search

  • Sphinx

  • Solx

• Containers:

  • Docker

    • A Docker Tutorial for Beginners

    • Get Started with Docker

  • rkt

  • lxc

• Web Servers

  • Apache

  • Nginx

  • Tomcat

• Web Sockets

  • GraphQL (optional)

    • How does it measure against REST

    • Graph databases

• Cloud Providers:

  • Amazon Web Services

    • EC2

    • ELB

    • S3

    • DynamoDB

    • Aurora

  • Google Cloud Platform

    • Google App Engine

  • Azure

  • Digital Ocean

  • Heroku

• Configuration Management:

  • Ansible

  • Chef

  • Puppet

  • Salt

• Site Monitoring:

  • Nagios

  • Icinga

  • Datadog

  • Zabbix

• Application Monitoring:

  • AppDynamics

  • New Relic

• Log Management

  • ELK Stack

  • Graylog

  • Splunk

  • Papertrail

• Linux System Administration:

  • Bash Scripting

  • Vim/Nano/Emacs

  • Compile apps from source (gcc, make)

  • Text manipulation tools

    • awk, sed, grep, sort, uniq, cat, cut

    • cut, echo, fmt, tr, nl, egrep, fgrep, wc

  • Process monitoring tools

    • ps, top, htop, atop, lsof

  • Network

    • nmap, tcpdump, ping, mtr, traceroute

    • airmon, airodump, dig, iptables

  • System Performance (nmon, iostat, sar, vmstat)

  • Miscellaneous (strace, dtrace, systemtap, uname, df, history)

• Advanced Web Configuration

  • Reverse Proxy

  • Forward Proxy

  • Caching Server

  • Load Balancer

  • Firewalls

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Development

  • Travis CI

    • Building a Python project

  • Circle CI

  • Jenkins

• Infrastructure Provisioning:

  • Terraform

• Version Control and associated systems

  • Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

• Project Management:

  • Scrum

  • Agile

• Deep dive into Operating Systems

  • Process Management

  • Threads & Concurrency

  • Sockets

  • I/O Management

  • Virtualization

  • Memory/Storage

  • File System

• Networking & Security

  • DNS

  • OSI model

  • HTTP

  • HTTPS

  • FTP

• Open Source Software Contribute by bug triaging, fixes and documentation

  (List your own merged PRs here)

  Write tests for invalid image files · Issue #3482 · mozilla-services/screenshots

  Write tests for invalid JPEG image files · Issue #4395 · mozilla-services/screenshots

  1315704 - [marionette harness tests] Test that BaseMarionetteArguments constructs arguments as expected

  Documentation for using containers with oVirt by leni1 · Pull Request #1148 · oVirt/ovirt-site

• Miscellaneous:

  • Kubernetes

    • Build and deploy a simple Python app with Kubernetes

    • Kubernetes examples

    • Curated list of Kubernetes resources

  • Data Modeling

  • Profiling

  • Static Analysis

  • Domain Driven Design (DDD)

    • Domain Driven Design Resources for Python Has some Ruby as well.

    • ETL