Roadmap
Backend
APIs, data, auth, and reliable services that scale with real traffic.
- Timeline
- 26 weeks
- Projects
- 3
- Tech
- 6
- Cert
- Backend Pathway Certificate
Roadmap summary
APIs, data, auth, and reliable services that scale with real traffic.
Skill tree
Week 1: Language & HTTP — Runtime, requests, routing Week 6: Databases — SQL modeling & queries Week 12: Auth & security — JWT, sessions, hardening Week 17: Caching & queues — Redis, async jobs Week 22: Production ops — Logging, deploy, SLOs
Technologies
Node.js, Java, SQL, Redis, REST, Auth
Projects along the way
• REST API • Auth service • Job queue worker
Certification
Backend Pathway Certificate