Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices - Course Curriculum

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Structured, hands-on learning path for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with detailed weekly outcomes and practical delivery.

14 Weeks

Advanced

Project-Based

Welcome to Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices! 🎓

This curriculum for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices follows a Bloom-aligned progression from advanced analysis to architecture-grade creation, with weekly evidence, labs, and portfolio outputs matched to advanced expectations.

Each week advances from comprehension and application toward evaluation and creation, ensuring progressive learning and capstone readiness.

Your success is our priority. By the end, you will produce portfolio-ready artifacts and confidently explain your technical decisions. You will graduate with a professionally curated portfolio that demonstrates scope, depth, and delivery quality. You will graduate with a professionally curated portfolio that demonstrates scope, depth, and delivery quality. You will graduate with a professionally curated portfolio that demonstrates scope, depth, and delivery quality. You will graduate with a professionally curated portfolio that demonstrates scope, depth, and delivery quality.

Prerequisites & What You Should Know

Programming language proficiency with solid grasp of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
Version control mastery: Git workflows, code review, merge conflict resolution, and collaborative development
Testing fundamentals: unit testing, test-driven development, mocking, and test coverage analysis
Debugging and profiling skills: breakpoint debugging, performance flame graphs, and memory analysis

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Essential Learning Resources

Language-specific style guides, design patterns reference, and debugging tools inventory
Testing frameworks, mock libraries, and performance profiling instructions for your tech stack
Refactoring patterns, security best practices, and code quality tooling configurations

Your Learning Roadmap

Early Weeks: Language fundamentals, testing basics, and design patterns
Middle Weeks: Advanced architectures, performance optimization, and debugging
Late Weeks: Production systems, scalability, and cross-platform deployment

Detailed Weekly Curriculum

Week 12 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1)

Analyze the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Evaluate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Design trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 22 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1)

Analyze the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Evaluate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Design trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Build a practical Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) workflow with source-to-output transformation steps.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) quality and performance with objective checks and tuning updates.
Deliver reproducible Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) outputs (dashboard/report/notebook) with run instructions.

Week 32 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1)

Analyze the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Evaluate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Design trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Produce a complete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1) prototype from brief to high-fidelity handoff artifacts.
Run usability/visual QA for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1) and apply iteration changes from feedback.
Deliver export-ready assets, source files, and implementation notes for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1).

Week 42 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1)

Analyze the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Evaluate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Design trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 1) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 52 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1)

Analyze the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Evaluate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Design trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 62 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1)

Evaluate the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Design Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Optimize trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 72 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1)

Evaluate the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Design Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Optimize trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Implement baseline controls for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1) and verify enforcement on target systems.
Run assessment/scanning for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1) and prioritize findings by exploitability and impact.
Close critical findings for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1) and publish re-test evidence.

Week 82 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1)

Evaluate the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Design Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Optimize trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Deployment and Support Readiness (Sprint 1) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 92 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2)

Evaluate the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Design Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Optimize trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Justify a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 2) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 102 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2)

Design the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Optimize Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Architect trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Defend a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Build a practical Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2) workflow with source-to-output transformation steps.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2) quality and performance with objective checks and tuning updates.
Deliver reproducible Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 2) outputs (dashboard/report/notebook) with run instructions.

Week 112 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2)

Design the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Optimize Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Architect trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Defend a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Produce a complete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2) prototype from brief to high-fidelity handoff artifacts.
Run usability/visual QA for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2) and apply iteration changes from feedback.
Deliver export-ready assets, source files, and implementation notes for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2).

Week 122 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2)

Design the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Optimize Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Architect trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Defend a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 132 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2)

Design the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Optimize Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Architect trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Defend a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Week 142 hours + labs

Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2)

Design the principles of Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2) and link them to course outcomes at advanced depth with architecture-level decision quality.
Optimize Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2) in a guided scenario using realistic tools, constraints, and quality gates.
Architect trade-offs, risks, and decision points for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2), then record rationale for stakeholder review.
Defend a portfolio-ready engineering implementation dossier for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2) with measurable success criteria and next actions.

Lab Exercise

Design and execute a concrete Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2) build in Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices with a clear acceptance checklist.
Validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2) with objective tests and quality controls before review.
Deliver Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 2) artifacts with reproducible steps and operational notes.

Capstone Projects

Project 1: Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices Foundation Build

Deliver a concrete foundation implementation covering the first phase of the curriculum.

Implement and validate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Programming Foundations and Code Structure (Sprint 1).
Integrate Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Data Structures and Problem Solving (Sprint 1) with reusable workflow standards.
Publish evidence for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 1) with test and quality artifacts.

Project 2: Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices Integrated Systems Build

Combine mid-program competencies into a production-style integrated workflow.

Build an end-to-end flow around Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 1) and Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Performance and Optimization (Sprint 1).
Add controls, observability, and rollback paths for reliability.
Document architecture decisions and trade-offs tied to Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Security and Reliability Basics (Sprint 1).

Project 3: Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices Capstone Delivery

Ship a portfolio-ready capstone with measurable outcomes and stakeholder-ready presentation.

Deliver a complete implementation centered on Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: API Design and Integration (Sprint 2).
Validate readiness for Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: State and Application Architecture (Sprint 2) using objective acceptance checks.
Present final defense and roadmap based on Advanced Backend: Node.js & Microservices: Testing and Debugging Practices (Sprint 2) outcomes.