Career Switch Roadmap — DevOps, Backend Engineering

1. 01

   Infrastructure as Code & Cloud

   2 topics

   • IaC & Terraformintermediate
   • Cloud Fundamentals (AWS-centric)intermediate
2. 02

   Observability & Reliability

   8 topics

   • Logs, Metrics & Tracesintermediate
   • Alerting & Incident Responseintermediate
   • SRE & Reliability Basicsadvanced
   • Secrets Managementadvanced
   • Incident Management Deep-diveintermediate
   • Chaos & Resilience Testingadvanced
   • Backups & Disaster Recoveryadvanced
   • Capacity & Load Testingintermediate
3. 03

   GitOps

   3 topics

   • GitOps Principlesintermediate
   • ArgoCD in Practiceadvanced
   • Environment Promotionadvanced
4. 04

   Kubernetes Advanced

   4 topics

   • Autoscalingadvanced
   • Operators & CRDsadvanced
   • K8s Troubleshooting Playbookadvanced
   • Service Meshadvanced
5. 05

   Platform Engineering

   3 topics

   • Why Platform Engineeringintermediate
   • Internal Developer Platformsadvanced
   • Self-service Infrastructureadvanced
6. 06

   IaC & Cloud Advanced

   5 topics

   • Terraform/OpenTofu Deep Diveadvanced
   • IaC Architectureadvanced
   • Compute Choicesintermediate
   • Cloud Networkingadvanced
   • CDN & Edge Operationsintermediate
7. 07

   Delivery Metrics & Supply Chain

   3 topics

   • DORA Metricsintermediate
   • Supply Chain Securityadvanced
   • Container Securityadvanced
8. 08

   FinOps

   3 topics

   • Cloud Cost Fundamentalsintermediate
   • Cost Optimization Leversintermediate
   • Unit Economicsadvanced
9. 09

   Node.js Fundamentals

   5 topics

   • Node.js Architectureintermediate
   • Modules & Package Managementbeginner
   • File System & Processbeginner
   • Streams & Buffersadvanced
   • Events & EventEmitterintermediate
10. 10

    Building APIs

    5 topics

    • HTTP Fundamentalsbeginner
    • Express & Fastifybeginner
    • Middleware Patternsintermediate
    • Validation & Error Handlingintermediate
    • CRUD API End-to-Endintermediate
11. 11

    API Design

    6 topics

    • REST Design Principlesintermediate
    • Versioning, Pagination & Filteringintermediate
    • API Documentation & OpenAPIintermediate
    • tRPC & End-to-end Typesintermediate
    • GraphQL Overviewintermediate
    • gRPC & Webhooksadvanced
12. 12

    Databases for Backend

    7 topics

    • SQL Fundamentalsbeginner
    • Relational Data Modelingintermediate
    • Transactions & ACIDadvanced
    • Indexing & Query Performanceadvanced
    • MongoDB & Document Modelingintermediate
    • ORMs & Query Buildersintermediate
    • Redis & Caching Layerintermediate

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