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by agentultra 1809 days ago
- HTTP: REST/HATEOAS, headers, transport layer caching, rate limiting, load balancing

- Authentication: OAuth2 is probably the most widely used

- Authorization: RBAC

- Some rudimentary statistics: know how to read metrics, write metrics, etc

- Learn one RDBMS inside and out. Other database systems have their place but you’ll almost always encounter a Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL. Learn how to read EXPLAIN output, cursor based pagination, and indices.