14 Lessons
Intermediate to Lead Backend
★ 4.97
(4,100+ Engineers Enrolled)
Node.js Backend Architecture: Libuv to High-Scale Microservices
Libuv 6 Phases, Streams, Buffer Memory, Clustering, Worker Threads & OWASP
⏱️ 52 Hours
📖 6 Modules
⚡ 20 Interactive Lessons
🏆 Free Verified Certificate
Complete Track Curriculum & Modules
Step-by-step interactive lessons with live browser compilers & coding assignments.
20 Lessons
1
3 Lessons
Module 1: Node.js Internals, Libuv & Event Loop Architecture
01. Node.js Architecture: V8, Libuv, C++ Bindings & Non-Blocking I/O
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
02. Libuv Event Loop 6 Phases: Timers, Pending, Poll, Check (setImmediate) & Close
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
03. process.nextTick vs setImmediate vs queueMicrotask (Starvation Traps)
⏱️ 35 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
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3 Lessons
Module 2: Buffers, Binary Protocols & Stream Pipelines
04. Buffer Allocation: Buffer.alloc vs Buffer.allocUnsafe & Memory Security
⏱️ 35 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
05. Node.js Streams: Readable, Writable, Duplex & Transform Streams
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
06. Backpressure Management & stream.pipeline vs .pipe() Gotchas
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
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3 Lessons
Module 3: Enterprise Express & High-Scale REST API Architecture
07. Production Express Architecture: Controller-Service-Repository Pattern
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
08. Custom Global Error Handling, Async Handlers & Zod Request Validation
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
09. High-Performance Caching with Redis & Invalidation Strategies
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
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3 Lessons
Module 4: Authentication, Cryptography & Web Security
10. Authentication Architecture: JWT Access/Refresh Tokens & Sliding Sessions
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
11. Node.js Crypto Module: Password Hashing (Argon2 vs bcrypt) & AES-256-GCM
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
12. API Security Hardening: Helmet, CORS, Rate Limiting & OWASP Defenses
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
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3 Lessons
Module 5: Concurrency, Clustering & Worker Threads
13. Child Processes: spawn vs exec vs execFile vs fork
⏱️ 40 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
14. Multi-Core Clustering: Node.js Cluster Module & Zero-Downtime Reloads
⏱️ 45 mins
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15. Worker Threads (worker_threads) & SharedArrayBuffer for CPU-Bound Tasks
⏱️ 50 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
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5 Lessons
Module 6: Microservices, Message Queues (BullMQ/RabbitMQ) & Production Ops
16. Real-Time WebSockets Architecture: Socket.io with Redis Adapter Scaling
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
17. Asynchronous Task Queues with Redis & BullMQ (Retries, Backoff, Dead Letters)
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
18. Microservices Architecture: gRPC Protocols with Protocol Buffers in Node.js
⏱️ 50 mins
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19. Observability: Winston Structured Logging, OpenTelemetry & Prometheus Metrics
⏱️ 45 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
20. Production PM2 Cluster Deployment, Memory Leak Profiling (heapdump) & Healthchecks
⏱️ 50 mins
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⚡ Interactive Sandbox
Target Big Tech Roles
Google / Meta SDE-2
Senior Full-Stack Architect
Lead Backend Engineer
Skills You Will Master
- Production-Grade Clean Architecture
- V8 Internals, Memory Profiling & Leaks
- Time & Space Complexity Optimization
- Big Tech Behavioral & System Design Edge
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