What exactly do you need to study in order to create your own game server?

Question

Project management

Hello. At leisure, I decided to go into Rust, played on a mod. server and was very inspired to also create his own, but for some other game. It is very interesting to find out how this can be implemented, what you need to know and what to learn. If you know, could you share some tips?
I program in Python, but other languages ​​are also in consideration.

Answer 1

Graphs, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, cryptography and statistics.
System programming, network stack operation, IP TCP UDP TLS protocols. Evaluation and optimization of algorithms and containers, parallel programming, work with databases and transactions.
It all depends on what kind of game and how big you want to make the server.