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Backend Thinking

Backend Role

Transform business requirements to action, which usually involves:

• Service:
  • ZaloPay use microservices architecture, mostly written using Go and Java
• API:
  • HTTP (Client-Server) and GRPC (Server-Server)
• Database/Cache/Storage/Message Broker
  • MySQL/Redis/S3/Kafka
  • CRUD
• Docs
  • Mostly design notes and diagrams which show how to implement business requirements

After successfully do all of that, next step is:

• Testing
  • Unit tests, Integration tests
• Observation
  • Log
  • Metrics
  • Tracing