Server Side Game Developer — resources

roadmap.sh: https://roadmap.sh/server-side-game-developer

Books

Multiplayer Game Programming (Joshua Glazer & Sanjay Madhav) — the canonical book on architecting and networking online games.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Martin Kleppmann) — essential for the data, scaling, and reliability side of game backends.
Game Engine Architecture (Jason Gregory) — covers the engine-side foundations server programmers integrate with.
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Kurose & Ross) — the standard text for the networking fundamentals netcode relies on.

Gaffer On Games — Glenn Fiedler’s legendary articles on game networking, physics, and reliable UDP.
Valve: Source Multiplayer Networking — classic primer on prediction, interpolation, and lag compensation.
Agones documentation — official guide to orchestrating dedicated game servers on Kubernetes.
Redis documentation — official docs for the in-memory store used for sessions, leaderboards, and matchmaking.