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Whether you're just starting out or levelling up, this is your launchpad. A friendly, step-by-step roadmap through
Frontend , Backend , DevOps and QA . Follow the path top to bottom, master one layer at a time, and walk into your dream job with confidence.
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From markup to production-grade React apps
1
Phase 1
Foundations
The bedrock of every web page
HTML5
Semantic structure & markup
CSS3
Layout, flexbox & grid
RD
Responsive Design
Mobile-first & breakpoints
2
Phase 2
Styling at Scale
Maintainable, accessible UI
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first styling
A11y
Web Accessibility
WCAG & ARIA standards
3
Phase 3
Programming the Web
Logic & type safety
JavaScript (ES6+)
Modern language features
TypeScript
Static typing for JS
4
Phase 4
Tooling & Version Control
Your daily workflow
5
Phase 5
The React Ecosystem
Component-driven UI
React
Component-based library
React Router
Client-side routing
HF
React Hook Form
Performant forms
Redux Toolkit
Predictable state
React Query
Server-state caching
6
Phase 6
Data & APIs
Talking to the backend
RE
REST APIs
HTTP resource design
GraphQL
Query exactly what you need
Au
Authentication
JWT & OAuth flows
WS
WebSockets
Real-time connections
7
Phase 7
Next.js & Rendering
Beyond the SPA
Next.js
The React framework
SSR
Server-Side Rendering
Render on request
SSG
Static Site Generation
Pre-built at build time
ISR
Incremental Static Regen
On-demand revalidation
PWA
Progressive Web Apps
Installable & offline
8
Phase 8
Performance & Delivery
Ship it fast & reliably
Pf
Performance Optimization
Core Web Vitals
Get Certified
Certifications to Aim For
Validate your skills with industry-recognised credentials
Meta Front-End Developer
Coursera · Professional Certificate
JavaScript Algorithms & Data Structures
freeCodeCamp
Responsive Web Design
freeCodeCamp
Certified JavaScript Developer
W3Schools
Capstone Project
Production-Grade SaaS Dashboard
Build and ship a full Next.js dashboard with authentication, server-side rendering and a polished, accessible UI.
Auth with JWT / OAuth & protected routes Data fetching & caching with React Query Global state with Redux Toolkit Forms & validation via React Hook Form SSR / ISR pages with Next.js Containerised & deployed via GitHub Actions
You're interview-ready
You've walked the full React path. Put it into practice with real opportunities and mock interviews on KodePilot.
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1
Phase 1
Language Core
Solid engineering basics
SO
SOLID Principles
Clean, maintainable design
2
Phase 2
Spring Fundamentals
Building web services
Spring Boot
Convention over config
Spring MVC
Controllers & routing
RE
REST APIs
Resource-oriented endpoints
3
Phase 3
Persistence
Data that lasts
Spring Data JPA
Repository abstractions
Hibernate
ORM & entity mapping
PostgreSQL
Relational database
4
Phase 4
Security & APIs
Protect and document
Spring Security
Auth & authorization
O2
OAuth 2.0
Delegated access
5
Phase 5
Caching & Messaging
Speed & decoupling
Redis
In-memory data store
Ca
Caching Strategies
Cache-aside & TTLs
Elasticsearch
Full-text search
6
Phase 6
Testing
Confidence in every change
Mk
Mockito
Mocking dependencies
Tc
Testcontainers
Real deps in tests
7
Phase 7
Architecture at Scale
Designing for growth
Ms
Microservices
Independent services
EDA
Event-Driven Architecture
Async event flows
DS
Distributed Systems
Consistency & scale
R4
Resilience4j
Circuit breakers & retries
8
Phase 8
Deployment & Ops
Run it in production
Get Certified
Certifications to Aim For
Validate your skills with industry-recognised credentials
Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17 Developer
Oracle
Spring Certified Professional
VMware / Broadcom
Oracle Certified Associate – Java
Oracle
Capstone Project
Scalable E-Commerce Microservices
Design a microservices backend that handles orders, payments and inventory reliably under load.
Spring Boot microservices with REST & GraphQL PostgreSQL + JPA / Hibernate, Flyway migrations Redis caching & RabbitMQ event flows Secured with Spring Security, JWT & OAuth 2.0 Tested with JUnit 5, Mockito & Testcontainers Dockerised behind Nginx, CI via GitHub Actions
You're interview-ready
You've walked the full Spring Boot path. Put it into practice with real opportunities and mock interviews on KodePilot.
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1
Phase 1
Systems Foundations
Know the machine
Net
Networking
DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS
2
Phase 2
Version Control & Scripting
Automate everything
Python
Automation & tooling
3
Phase 3
Containers & Orchestration
Package & schedule workloads
Kubernetes
Container orchestration
4
Phase 4
CI/CD & GitOps
Continuous delivery
CI
CI/CD
Build, test, deploy
GO
GitOps
Git as source of truth
5
Phase 5
Cloud & IaC
Infrastructure as code
ECS / EKS
Managed containers
IaC
Infrastructure as Code
Repeatable infra
6
Phase 6
Observability
See everything
Mo
Monitoring & Alerting
Health signals
Ob
Logging & Observability
Logs, metrics, traces
7
Phase 7
Security & Reliability
Keep it safe & resilient
Secrets Management
Vaults & rotation
Im
Incident Management
Respond & recover
Get Certified
Certifications to Aim For
Validate your skills with industry-recognised credentials
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
CNCF · Linux Foundation
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
HashiCorp
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Capstone Project
Cloud-Native Platform on AWS
Provision and operate a production-ready Kubernetes platform with full GitOps delivery and observability.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform on AWS Workloads on EKS, packaged with Helm GitOps delivery via Argo CD CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions Metrics, logs & alerts: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki Secrets managed with HashiCorp Vault
You're interview-ready
You've walked the full DevOps path. Put it into practice with real opportunities and mock interviews on KodePilot.
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1
Phase 1
Testing Foundations
Think like a tester first
MT
Manual Testing
Exploratory & functional
LC
SDLC / STLC
Software & test lifecycle
TC
Test Case Design
Boundary, equivalence & more
BG
Bug Life Cycle
Report, triage & track
AG
Agile / Scrum
Testing in sprints
2
Phase 2
Programming for Testers
Code your automation
Java
Most common SDET language
JavaScript (ES6+)
For JS-based tools
Python
Scripting & frameworks
TypeScript
Typed test code
3
Phase 3
Version Control & CI
Run tests on every push
4
Phase 4
Web UI Automation
Drive the browser
Selenium
The automation standard
Playwright
Cross-browser automation
WebdriverIO
Next-gen WebDriver
5
Phase 5
Test Frameworks & Runners
Structure & assert
JUnit 5
Java unit testing
TN
TestNG
Flexible Java test runner
Jest
JS testing framework
Jasmine
Behaviour-driven JS
6
Phase 6
BDD & Behaviour Testing
Specs everyone can read
Cucumber
BDD with Gherkin
GK
Gherkin
Given-When-Then syntax
Robot Framework
Keyword-driven testing
Testing Library
User-centric UI tests
7
Phase 7
API Testing
Test below the UI
RA
REST Assured
Java API automation
RE
REST APIs
HTTP & status codes
8
Phase 8
Performance & Load
Break it before users do
9
Phase 9
Mobile, Quality & Delivery
Ship with confidence
Appium
Mobile app automation
Get Certified
Certifications to Aim For
Validate your skills with industry-recognised credentials
ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level
ISTQB
ISTQB Advanced – Test Automation Engineer
ISTQB
Selenium WebDriver Certification
Simplilearn
Certified Agile Tester
iSQI
Capstone Project
End-to-End Test Automation Framework
Build a hybrid automation framework covering UI, API and performance, wired into CI with rich reporting.
UI automation with Selenium / Playwright (Page Object Model) BDD scenarios using Cucumber & Gherkin API tests with REST Assured & Postman Load testing with JMeter / k6 Mobile flows automated via Appium CI on Jenkins / GitHub Actions, Dockerised, Allure reports
You're interview-ready
You've walked the full QA / Automation path. Put it into practice with real opportunities and mock interviews on KodePilot.
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1
Phase 1
React · Foundations
The bedrock of every web page
HTML5
Semantic structure & markup
CSS3
Layout, flexbox & grid
RD
Responsive Design
Mobile-first & breakpoints
2
Phase 2
React · Styling at Scale
Maintainable, accessible UI
Tailwind CSS
Utility-first styling
A11y
Web Accessibility
WCAG & ARIA standards
3
Phase 3
React · Programming the Web
Logic & type safety
JavaScript (ES6+)
Modern language features
TypeScript
Static typing for JS
4
Phase 4
React · Tooling & Version Control
Your daily workflow
5
Phase 5
React · The React Ecosystem
Component-driven UI
React
Component-based library
React Router
Client-side routing
HF
React Hook Form
Performant forms
Redux Toolkit
Predictable state
React Query
Server-state caching
6
Phase 6
React · Data & APIs
Talking to the backend
RE
REST APIs
HTTP resource design
GraphQL
Query exactly what you need
Au
Authentication
JWT & OAuth flows
WS
WebSockets
Real-time connections
7
Phase 7
React · Next.js & Rendering
Beyond the SPA
Next.js
The React framework
SSR
Server-Side Rendering
Render on request
SSG
Static Site Generation
Pre-built at build time
ISR
Incremental Static Regen
On-demand revalidation
PWA
Progressive Web Apps
Installable & offline
8
Phase 8
React · Performance & Delivery
Ship it fast & reliably
Pf
Performance Optimization
Core Web Vitals
9
Phase 9
Spring Boot · Language Core
Solid engineering basics
SO
SOLID Principles
Clean, maintainable design
10
Phase 10
Spring Boot · Spring Fundamentals
Building web services
Spring Boot
Convention over config
Spring MVC
Controllers & routing
RE
REST APIs
Resource-oriented endpoints
11
Phase 11
Spring Boot · Persistence
Data that lasts
Spring Data JPA
Repository abstractions
Hibernate
ORM & entity mapping
PostgreSQL
Relational database
12
Phase 12
Spring Boot · Security & APIs
Protect and document
Spring Security
Auth & authorization
O2
OAuth 2.0
Delegated access
13
Phase 13
Spring Boot · Caching & Messaging
Speed & decoupling
Redis
In-memory data store
Ca
Caching Strategies
Cache-aside & TTLs
Elasticsearch
Full-text search
14
Phase 14
Spring Boot · Testing
Confidence in every change
Mk
Mockito
Mocking dependencies
Tc
Testcontainers
Real deps in tests
15
Phase 15
Spring Boot · Architecture at Scale
Designing for growth
Ms
Microservices
Independent services
EDA
Event-Driven Architecture
Async event flows
DS
Distributed Systems
Consistency & scale
R4
Resilience4j
Circuit breakers & retries
16
Phase 16
Spring Boot · Deployment & Ops
Run it in production
17
Phase 17
DevOps · Systems Foundations
Know the machine
Net
Networking
DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS
18
Phase 18
DevOps · Version Control & Scripting
Automate everything
Python
Automation & tooling
19
Phase 19
DevOps · Containers & Orchestration
Package & schedule workloads
Kubernetes
Container orchestration
20
Phase 20
DevOps · CI/CD & GitOps
Continuous delivery
CI
CI/CD
Build, test, deploy
GO
GitOps
Git as source of truth
21
Phase 21
DevOps · Cloud & IaC
Infrastructure as code
ECS / EKS
Managed containers
IaC
Infrastructure as Code
Repeatable infra
22
Phase 22
DevOps · Observability
See everything
Mo
Monitoring & Alerting
Health signals
Ob
Logging & Observability
Logs, metrics, traces
23
Phase 23
DevOps · Security & Reliability
Keep it safe & resilient
Secrets Management
Vaults & rotation
Im
Incident Management
Respond & recover
Get Certified
Certifications to Aim For
Validate your skills with industry-recognised credentials
Meta Front-End Developer
Coursera
Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17
Oracle
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
CNCF
Capstone Project
Full-Stack Product, End to End
Take a product from idea to production: a React frontend on a Spring Boot backend, deployed and monitored on the cloud.
React + Next.js frontend with SSR & auth Spring Boot REST / GraphQL backend PostgreSQL, Redis & RabbitMQ data layer Containerised with Docker, orchestrated on Kubernetes CI/CD with GitHub Actions & Argo CD Observability with Prometheus & Grafana
You're interview-ready
You've walked the full Fullstack path. Put it into practice with real opportunities and mock interviews on KodePilot.
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