🚀 Ultimate Backend Development Course

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– Spring Boot Edition

Learn Spring Boot from Scratch and Level Up to a Senior Software Engineer Role

🔥 Top Highlights
This course is your complete guide to backend mastery. Designed to match real-world
engineering standards, it not only teaches backend programming—it trains you to think
like a systems designer, a scalable architect, and a performance-first engineer.

🧠 Most Advanced Concepts You’ll Master:

CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation): Scale high-read or high-
write workloads independently. A must-have in fintech and analytics-heavy
domains.

API Composition & Materialized View Pattern: Aggregate data across

microservices in milliseconds—vital for dashboards, home feeds, and listings.

SAGA Pattern:

Orchestration: Use centralized services to coordinate workflows like

booking + payment.

Choreography: Design event-driven microservices where each component

reacts to events.

Event Sourcing with Kafka: Reconstruct entire system state from immutable logs.
Used for audit compliance, data replay, and analytics.

Transactional Outbox Pattern + CDC (Debezium): Guarantee safe event

publishing from the database—used in payment, messaging, and supply-chain
systems.

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Consistency Models (Eventual, Causal, Immediate): Choose the right trade-offs

for high-availability systems. Understand when and why banks use strict
consistency and when social apps use eventual.

DB Internals: Learn WAL (Write-Ahead Logs), MVCC, buffer pool, and LSM Trees.
Used by every modern RDBMS and NoSQL engine.

GeoHashing & Location Indexes: Build Uber-like location lookups using Redis
GEO, spatial indexes, and quad tree comparisons.

Distributed Locks (Redis, DB): Learn when to use pessimistic vs optimistic locking
and how Redis helps coordinate across pods and servers.

API Gateways & Service Meshes: Secure, throttle, route, and manage API access
using Kong or Spring Gateway.

Service Discovery: Learn Eureka, Consul, and dynamic resolution in scalable

service meshes.

Database Replication & Sharding: Implement master-slave, multi-master, and

leaderless replication. Learn partition strategies for scale.

💻 Flagship Projects Included

🔷 Major Projects:
1. Uber Backend

Geo-search for drivers using Redis GEO and Haversine

Real-time updates with WebSocket and Kafka

Surge pricing, driver-location tracking, trip lifecycle

2. Payment Wallet System

CQRS + Event Sourcing + Outbox Pattern + Kafka

Transactional integrity with rollback and retry

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Used for P2P transfers like Paytm or Uber Wallet

3. Airbnb Booking System

Calendar sync, host/guest flows, messaging

JWT-secured microservices, role-based auth

Booking race conditions handled with distributed locks

🔹 Minor Projects:
4. Quora Clone

Feed ranking, upvote/downvote scoring, reply trees

MongoDB aggregations, nested population

Full-text search with ElasticSearch integration

5. Hotel Management System

Room allocation, billing, service management

Shift scheduling and availability sync

Monolith → microservice refactoring journey

🧱 Build Systems & Java Ecosystem

Master Gradle for real-world CI/CD and packaging.

Write reusable modules with shared interfaces, contracts, DTOs.

Create fat JARs for Dockerization and production-ready apps.

JVM GC types, tuning memory, JIT compiler internals.

Build AOP annotations for tracing, logging, auth injection.

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 🧠 Low-Level Design (LLD)
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Implement common patterns: Singleton, Builder, Strategy, Observer.

DTO → Mapper → Domain flow using MapStruct.

Create reusable validators, request interceptors, and service contracts.

Understand how good LLD unlocks scalable HLD.

🔌 REST API Development

REST principles done the right way: idempotency, status codes, HATEOAS.

Pagination, filtering, rate-limiting, and versioned APIs.

Exception handling with @ControllerAdvice and global error handling middleware.

Integrate Swagger/OpenAPI for real-time documentation.

🧩 Microservices & Project Architecture

Transition from Monolith to Modular Monolith to Microservices.

DDD-driven boundaries for independent deployments.

Use Spring Cloud Config, Eureka for centralized configuration & discovery.

Retry, circuit breakers (Resilience4J), fallback and bulkheads.

Feign client for service-to-service internal calls.

🧵 Messaging & Event-Driven Systems

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Kafka setup, brokers, zookeepers, replication factors, partitions.

Kafka with Spring Boot using KafkaTemplate and listeners.

Kafka Streams for ETL, sliding windows, and aggregations.

Outbox pattern implementation with PostgreSQL + Debezium.

✍️ CQRS + Outbox + Debezium CDC

Split read/write DBs for scaling independently.

Use CDC to detect inserts in outbox tables.

Publish those changes as Kafka events reliably.

Ideal for financial apps, audit systems, logistics.

🔁 Redis & Caching

Spring Cache abstraction over Redis.

Read-through, write-around, and cache invalidation strategies.

Distributed locks using Redisson.

Use Redis streams and pub/sub for real-time communication.

🔗 gRPC & Protobuf

Define Protobuf messages and RPC services.

Generate Java code and create gRPC servers & clients.

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Use streaming RPCs for real-time messaging.

Benchmark gRPC vs REST vs Thrift in payload & latency.

🗃️ Spring Data JPA & ORM

Entity inheritance: Table-per-class, Joined, Single Table.

Relationships with Cascade and Fetch types.

Lazy loading vs Eager loading and N+1 problem.

Flyway integration for versioned schema changes.

💾 Advanced Databases
MVCC, WAL, isolation levels, redo logs explained.

Indexes: B-tree, Hash, GIN/GiST in PostgreSQL.

Triggers: before/after insert/update for automation.

ACID & CAP theorem applications in real-world systems.

⚙️ Auth & Security

Spring Security, JWT, refresh tokens, method-level security.

Role-based access control (RBAC), fine-grained permissions.

OAuth2 integration for social login.

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 📡 Real-Time Systems
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WebSocket + SockJS + STOMP for messaging.

Kafka as backbone for message queue in large systems.

Use rooms/namespaces for scalable WebSocket architecture.

✅ Testing & TDD

Unit testing with JUnit5 and Mockito.

Integration testing with Testcontainers (Kafka, MySQL, Redis).

REST Assured for API contract tests.

Mutation testing and test coverage metrics.

📦 CI/CD, Docker & Observability

Dockerfile best practices + Docker Compose stacks.

GitHub Actions workflows for test/build/deploy.

Prometheus + Grafana + Micrometer metrics.

ELK Stack: Filebeat, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana.

Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger.

🧠 System Design & Patterns (Throughout the Course)

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Consistent Hashing, Cache Invalidation, Circuit Breakers.

Database sharding, replication, quorums, CAP tradeoffs.

Design Twitter timelines, Uber geo-routing, Airbnb booking flow.

Apply trade-offs of availability vs consistency in real scenarios.

🎯 Final Outcome: Walk away not just with knowledge—but real systems engineering
wisdom. You’ll be able to:

Design and build cloud-native backend systems end-to-end

Understand how large-scale systems are architected

Implement real-world backend features like payments, bookings, chat, and more

Ace backend interviews at top product companies

If you’re serious about backend engineering—this course is your launchpad.

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