Julio's .

NET Backend
Developer Roadmap

How does the Internet work? 

What is HTTP? 
What is .NET? 

.NET CLR basics 

Internet Basics What is DNS? 

What is hosting? 
C# Language 
.NET Essentials How to browsers work? 
Essential .NET libraries and types 

Basic .NET CLI commands 

What is ASP.NET Core? 
NuGet 
App startup 

Dependency injection 
What is a REST API? 
Middleware 
Controllers 

Minimal APIs 
ASP.NET Core Fundamentals Host 

Web server 
Postman 
Web API Configuration 
Swagger / Open API 
Routing 
JSON 
Error handling 
DTO 

Validation 
PostgreSQL 

Relational  Azure SQL Database 

Docker 

MySQL 
Docker Compose  Databases
Containers
MongoDB 
Docker Hub 
NoSQL 
Azure Cosmos DB 
Azure Container Registry 

Dev-time Orchestration 
ASP.NET Core Authentication 
Integrations  .NET Aspire Frameworks
ASP.NET Core Authorization 
Dashboard 
JSON Web Tokens 
Kubernetes 
Standards OAuth 2.0 
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)  Orchestration Deployment
OpenID Connect 
Helm 
Keycloak 
YARP  Security OpenID providers
Microsoft Entra ID 
NGINX  API Gateway 
.NET Secret Manager 
Emissary-ingress  Secrets management
Azure Key Vault 
Bicep 
HTTPS 
Terraform  Infrastructure Transport
TLS 
Azure CLI 
CORS 

xUnit 

Moq  Unit testing 

TDD  Testing
WebApplicationFactory  Integration testing 
Git 
Version control
GitHub 

Background service  Task Scheduling

HttpClient 
Synchronous 
gRPC 
ILogger 
Azure Service Bus 
Serilog  Logging
Communication Asynchronous  RabbitMQ 
Seq 
Centralized logging tools Apache Kafka 
Elastic Stack 
WebSockets 
OpenTelemetry 
Observability Real-time
Distributed Tracing SignalR 
Jaeger 

Prometheus 
Monitoring Caching Redis 
Grafana 

Continuous integration  Single Responsibility Priniciple ( SRP )

Concepts
Continuous deployment  Open-Closed Principle (OCP)
DevOps
GitHub Actions  SOLID  Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
Services
Azure DevOps  Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)

Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)

Singleton  Design Principles DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) 

Repository  KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!) 

Retries with exponential backoff  YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) 

Circuit breaker  DDD (Domain Driven Design) 

Publisher-subscriber  Design Patterns

Saga  Vertical Slice Architecture 

Mediator  Architectural Patterns Microservices 

Competing consumers  Monolithic Apps 

Event sourcing 

FluentValidation 

Bogus 
Essential Libraries
Polly 

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