categories.json

[
    ["Front-End", [
        ["CSS", ["<a href=\"http://www.getbootstrap.com/\">Bootstrap</a>, 960gs, YUI, Foundation"]],
        ["JS MVC", ["JQuery, Angular, React, ..."]],
        ["Component", ["JSF, Vaadin, Tapestry, GWT"]],
        ["MVC", ["Routage, Templating, Middleware Spring MVC, Play, Servlet/JSP"]]
    ]],

    ["Distributed Systems", [
        ["Binary RPC", ["legacy: Corba, RMI, new:Thrift, protobuf"]],
        ["Messaging", ["JMS (ActiveMQ), AMQP (RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ), ..."]],
        ["Text Resources / REST"],
        ["File Batch Processing"],
        ["SPAN Distributed Systems Fundamentals"]
    ]],

    ["Persistence", [
        ["SPAN ORM", ["Mapper - Active Record - Plain JDBC"]],
        ["Relational", ["Oracle, MySQL, Postgresql, ..."]],
        ["Key-Value", ["Redis, <br>Riak"]],
        ["Document", ["MongoDB, <br>Couchbase"]],
        ["Column", ["BigTable, <br>Cassandra"]],
        ["Graph", ["Neo4j, Titan"]],
        ["Analytics", ["Hadoop, Teradata"]],
        ["In-Memory", ["Memcached"]],
        ["Temporal", ["Datomic"]],
        ["Index", ["ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene,..."]],
        ["SPAN DB Fundamentals", ["Storage, Indexing, Query"]]
    ]],

    ["Testing", [
        ["Unit Testing", ["JUnit, Mockito"]],
        ["BDD", ["JBehave, Cucumber, Fitness, SpecFlow, ..."]],
        ["Advanced Testing", ["Mutating testing, simulation testing, Property-based testing"]]
    ]],

    ["Development Infrastructure", [
        ["Build", ["Make, Ant, Maven, Ivy/Gradle"]],
        ["Collaboration Tools", ["Ticket Mgt, Wiki"]],
        ["Source Management", ["Git, SVN, Continuous Integration (Jenkins)"]],
        ["IDE", ["Eclipse, Intellij, Sublime, Emacs/Vi"]],
    ]],

    ["Core Services and Libraries", [
        ["Concurrency", ["Actors, CSP, Thread/lock, ..."]],
        ["Security", ["Authentication, Authorization, Integrity/Confidentiality, Encrypting, Intrusion"]],
        ["AOP", ["AspectJ, Dynamic Proxy"]],
        ["DI", ["Spring, Guice, JEE DI"]],
        ["Transaction", ["ACID, BASE, 2PC"]],
        ["Rules", ["Validation, Business Rules, Logic Programming"]],
    ]],

    ["Languages and Programming", [
        ["Dynamic / Imperative / OO", ["Python, Ruby, Groovy, Javascript (Coffee, Dart)"]],
        ["Static / Dynamic / FP", ["Lisp, Clojure, Erlang, Haskell, Scala, F#"]],
        ["Static / Imperative / OO", ["Java, C#, C/C++, Go, ..."]],
        ["Others", ["Prolog, ..."]],
        ["SPAN Algorithms"],
        ["SPAN Data Structures"],
        ["SPAN Compilers Fundamentals", ["Parsing, Interpretation, Compilation"]],
        ["SPAN Theory of Computation"]
    ]],

    ["Machine and OS", [
        ["SPAN Cloud Computing", ["AWS, Heroku"]],
        ["SPAN Virtualization", ["VMWare, Docker, VirtualBox/Vagrant"]],
        ["SPAN OS Fundamentals", ["FileSystem, Processes, Memory, Networking"]],
        ["SPAN Computer Architecture", ["Transistors, gates, adders, muxes, flip flops, ALUs, control units, caches and RAM"]]
    ]]
]