I'm looking to refresh my Linux skills, but I notice that most guides are tailored for DevOps professionals who need extensive knowledge. I'm curious about how much Linux knowledge is actually necessary for a backend developer. What specific concepts and tools should I focus on learning to be effective in my role?
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Don't forget about tools like curl and wget for making requests, especially if you’re working with APIs. They’re essential for testing and debugging your services. Exploring how to manage HTTP requests and responses will definitely enhance your backend development workflow!
As a backend developer, you should definitely know how to navigate the shell, install dependencies, and manage services. Being able to read logs using tail, search for files with commands like find and grep, and edit files in vim or sed can be really useful. Additionally, understanding file permissions and how to change them (using chmod), creating users and groups with specific permissions, and monitoring system resources with tools like top are also key skills. Basic networking commands, such as ping and curl for making HTTP requests, would be great to know as well. Feel free to add more if you think of anything!
You're totally right about the essentials! Those skills can make a huge difference when troubleshooting or setting up your environment.
Yeah, I totally get that chmod is important, but come on, why would a backend dev need to manage user permissions? I feel like that’s more of an IT role.