--- title: How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals) description: Understanding the fundamentals of backend engineering is crucial for building robust and scalable applications. Key areas include communication protocols (like... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bjej0i9jm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals) | daily.dev og:description: Understanding the fundamentals of backend engineering is crucial for building robust and scalable applications. Key areas include communication protocols (like... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bjej0i9jm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bJej0i9jM.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals) **[Techunter](https://daily.dev/sources/tech_hunter)** · [@beesou777](https://daily.dev/beesou777) · 520 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Understanding the fundamentals of backend engineering is crucial for building robust and scalable applications. Key areas include communication protocols (like TCP, UDP, HTTP), web servers, database engineering, proxies, messaging systems, message formats, and security risks. Specializing in any of these fields can deepen your expertise, but a broad understanding is also valuable. Practical experience through experimentation and hands-on projects is essential for mastery. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rlaycock** · 14 upvotes > Being a Software Engineer for over 20 years, it is great to see some posts, videos, blogs about experience, comparing previous computing trends with present day ones and highlighting the fact that the underpinning has not changed. > > Most others focus on the latest trend or technology to hit the internet. > > I recall having to learn the OSI Model / ISO Network Stack and when I mention it to developers now they have no idea what I am on about. > > For any skill, learn the basics, understand the concepts and principles, don't just learn the language, framework or application. Get to understand the... **@subrajeet** · 3 upvotes > Really Insightful!! **@ahanafchoww** · 0 upvotes > nice one **@matheusdoedev** · 0 upvotes > Very insightful article, thanks for post. **@vitoianhis** · 0 upvotes > Thanks, man! I was feeling kinda lost, and this article helped me a lot! ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/bjej0i9jm) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/bjej0i9jm","headline":"How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals)","text":"Shared: How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals)","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bjej0i9jm","datePublished":"2024-12-03T13:34:27.977Z","dateModified":"2024-12-03T13:34:58.636Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"bishwa jung shah","url":"https://daily.dev/beesou777","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--3QAt5TxK--/f_auto/v1732519416/avatars/avatar_l8ZBl2fPJHAiouPYsur5S","description":"Welcome to my world mates . 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Get to understand the inner workings and you will find that you can reuse that information far more and in different fields.","datePublished":"2025-01-08T18:15:36.615Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bJej0i9jM#c-BeQsQcnR9","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod","url":"https://daily.dev/rlaycock","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--XsPCsnBr--/f_auto/v1740324526/avatars/avatar_qWfJ88yWMGk78byUs8YxN"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":14}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Really Insightful!!","datePublished":"2024-12-25T09:41:29.809Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bJej0i9jM#c-9BCLJKAyR","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Subrajeet Maharana","url":"https://daily.dev/subrajeet","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--7p-GOim5--/f_auto/v1735119875/avatars/avatar_DzeredtiLecJnaMkSZWe3"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"nice one","datePublished":"2025-01-10T18:42:00.019Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bJej0i9jM#c-HRFzRtTOZ","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ahanaf Chowdhury","url":"https://daily.dev/ahanafchoww","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJuy2P1ACKaYURdzaF1aywG-mtypA0qqrQ3UFx42jU1HTmRqYM=s96-c"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Very insightful article, thanks for post.","datePublished":"2025-01-07T10:31:28.350Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/bJej0i9jM#c-meMMqdqz1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Matheus do É Santos","url":"https://daily.dev/matheusdoedev","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/58111490?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Thanks, man! 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