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Advanced Go Backend Development Roadmap
Section titled “Advanced Go Backend Development Roadmap”🔒 Authentication & Identity Management
Section titled “🔒 Authentication & Identity Management”Custom OAuth2 / OIDC Provider
Section titled “Custom OAuth2 / OIDC Provider”- Implement OAuth2.0 flows with PKCE (RFC 7636)
- Build OIDC-compliant endpoints (/.well-known/openid-configuration)
- Implement JWT signing with rotating JWKs (RFC 7517)
- Add token introspection (RFC 7662) and revocation endpoints
- Support custom claims and scopes with fine-grained permissions
- Implement proof-key binding and device flow (RFC 8628)
Multi-Tenant Access Control System
Section titled “Multi-Tenant Access Control System”- Design hierarchical RBAC with inheritance
- Implement ABAC using policy engines (OPA/Rego)
- Support tenant isolation patterns:
- Schema-per-tenant
- Shared schema with row-level security
- Hybrid approach with materialized views
- Add audit logging with contextual metadata
- Implement cross-tenant authorization
📊 Data Systems & Storage
Section titled “📊 Data Systems & Storage”Advanced Time Series Engine
Section titled “Advanced Time Series Engine”- Implement custom TimescaleDB hypertables
- Build efficient downsampling with continuous aggregates
- Support real-time analytics with incremental materialized views
- Implement retention policies and data lifecycle
- Add support for:
- Gap filling and interpolation
- Complex window functions
- Statistical aggregations (percentiles, histograms)
Event Sourcing & CQRS
Section titled “Event Sourcing & CQRS”- Design event store with optimistic concurrency
- Implement event versioning and upcasting
- Build async projection workers with exactly-once semantics
- Add snapshot mechanism for performance
- Support temporal queries (as-of timestamps)
- Implement event schema evolution
Enterprise-Grade Ledger
Section titled “Enterprise-Grade Ledger”- Implement double-entry bookkeeping with ACID guarantees
- Add cryptographic proof of audit trail
- Support multi-currency transactions
- Implement ISO 20022 compliance
- Add regulatory reporting capabilities
- Build reconciliation system
🔄 Real-Time & Integration
Section titled “🔄 Real-Time & Integration”Distributed Sync Engine
Section titled “Distributed Sync Engine”- Implement CRDTs for conflict-free replication
- Build efficient delta sync
- Add optimistic UI updates
- Support offline-first operations
- Implement operational transforms for rich text
- Add real-time collaboration features
Enterprise ETL Framework
Section titled “Enterprise ETL Framework”- Design modular pipeline architecture
- Support various sources/sinks:
- REST/GraphQL APIs
- gRPC streams
- Message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- SFTP/FTPS
- Implement data quality checks
- Add schema evolution handling
- Support CDC (Change Data Capture)
Reliable Webhook System
Section titled “Reliable Webhook System”- Implement webhook signature verification (HMAC)
- Add automatic retries with exponential backoff
- Support rate limiting and circuit breakers
- Add webhook replay and debugging tools
- Implement webhook load balancing
- Support webhook fan-out patterns
🚀 Performance & Scalability
Section titled “🚀 Performance & Scalability”Distributed Task Queue
Section titled “Distributed Task Queue”- Use PostgreSQL SKIP LOCKED for job claiming
- Implement priority queues with NOTIFY/LISTEN
- Add job dependencies and DAG support
- Support distributed locking patterns
- Implement job cancellation and timeout
- Add real-time job progress tracking
Multi-Region Architecture
Section titled “Multi-Region Architecture”- Implement multi-master replication
- Handle network partitions gracefully
- Support conflict resolution strategies
- Add automated failover
- Implement locality-aware routing
- Support global + local transactions
Query Optimization Engine
Section titled “Query Optimization Engine”- Build custom query planner
- Implement query rewriting rules
- Add security layer in AST
- Support distributed query execution
- Implement query caching strategies
- Add explain plan visualization
🧠 Domain-Driven Design
Section titled “🧠 Domain-Driven Design”Microservices Architecture
Section titled “Microservices Architecture”- Implement saga pattern for distributed transactions
- Add circuit breakers and bulkheads
- Support event-driven communication
- Implement idempotency patterns
- Add service discovery
- Support blue/green deployments
Graph-Based CMS
Section titled “Graph-Based CMS”- Implement GraphQL API
- Support content versioning
- Add workflow automation
- Implement content scheduling
- Support dynamic schemas
- Add AI-powered content suggestions
Advanced Rate Limiting
Section titled “Advanced Rate Limiting”- Implement token bucket algorithm
- Support distributed rate limiting
- Add adaptive rate limiting
- Implement quota management
- Support rate limit sharing
- Add usage analytics
🧰 Developer Experience
Section titled “🧰 Developer Experience”Code Generation System
Section titled “Code Generation System”- Generate type-safe database access
- Add validation code generation
- Support custom templates
- Generate OpenAPI specs
- Add migration generators
- Support plugin system
Development Environment
Section titled “Development Environment”- Implement service virtualization
- Add chaos testing support
- Support component testing
- Implement contract testing
- Add performance profiling
- Support hot reloading
Query Analysis Tools
Section titled “Query Analysis Tools”- Implement query fingerprinting
- Add performance analytics
- Support query optimization
- Implement query replay
- Add load testing tools
- Support query plan analysis
🔐 Security & Operations
Section titled “🔐 Security & Operations”Secrets Management
Section titled “Secrets Management”- Implement envelope encryption
- Support key rotation
- Add audit logging
- Implement secret versioning
- Support HSM integration
- Add secret injection
Database Security
Section titled “Database Security”- Implement row-level security
- Add column encryption
- Support data masking
- Implement access policies
- Add security monitoring
- Support compliance reporting
Kubernetes Integration
Section titled “Kubernetes Integration”- Build custom operators
- Implement auto-scaling
- Add service mesh integration
- Support canary deployments
- Implement GitOps workflow
- Add policy enforcement
🔥 Production Readiness
Section titled “🔥 Production Readiness”Observability
Section titled “Observability”- Implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Add structured logging (JSON)
- Set up metrics aggregation
- Implement health checks
- Add synthetic monitoring
- Support log correlation
Infrastructure
Section titled “Infrastructure”- Implement infrastructure as code
- Add automated testing
- Support multi-cloud deployment
- Implement disaster recovery
- Add compliance automation
- Support infrastructure drift detection