Software Engineer Roadmap
Performance
Making systems fast and efficient.
2 weeks · wk 32–33Core / deep pace6 topics18 Interview Questions
Why this pace:React DevTools profiling gives you intuition for the frontend half — extend that mindset to backend and database-level optimization.
SEC FOCUS
Be aware of timing attacks — response-time differences can leak information you didn’t mean to expose.
Topics & Action Items (6)
01
Profiling and benchmarking
1-2 hrs02
Algorithmic vs system-level optimization
1-2 hrs03
Caching layers (CDN, Redis)
1-2 hrs04
Database query tuning
2 hrs05
Memory and garbage collection tuning
1-2 hrs06
Load and stress testing
1-2 hrs