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Suggestions for java dev wannabe?
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For discussing Java, the JVM, languages that run on the JVM, and other related technologies.
Imho, the java aspect of it matters much less than the backend concepts. Are you already familiar with those ?
There's quite a lot of stuff to learn on the backend and it really depends on which layer you want to focus on. If you're interested in developing business services then i would recommend writing a restful API (for example for a to-do app) with spring boot and your preferred flavor of SQL database. That covers a lot already. From there you can look at how to scale performance up (caching, queuing, asynchronous).
I do have experience in nodeJS microservices, including DB ORMs and REST APIs. It's about migrating that knowledge to java environment now