The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr🧑🏫 Courses I Teach...
Episodes (543)
Caching is a cop-out
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How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
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How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll
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Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0
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Don't let AI rob you
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New Book: Root cause
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5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets
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Page Tables
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CPU and Kernel Page Faults
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Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details
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Graceful shutdown in HTTP
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Postgres 18 gets Async IO
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Kernel level TLS
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The beauty of the CPU
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Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster
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Does discipline work?
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Socket management and Kernel Data structures
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The genius of long polling
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Six stages of a good software engineer
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This new Linux patch can speed up Reading Requests
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Cloudflare's 150ms global cache purge | Deep Dive
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MySQL is having a bumpy journey
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How many kernel calls in NodeJS vs Bun vs Python vs native C
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When do you use threads?
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Frontend and Backends Timeouts
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Postgres is combining IO in version 17
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Windows vs Linux Kernel
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Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports
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io uring gets even faster
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They made Python faster with this compiler option
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How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS
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Google Patches Linux kernel with 40% TCP performance
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Database Torn pages
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Cloudflare Open sources Pingora (NGINX replacement)
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The Internals of MongoDB
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The Beauty of Programming Languages
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The Danger of Defaults - A PostgreSQL Story
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Database Background writing
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The Cost of Memory Fragmentation
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The Real Hidden Cost of a Request
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Why create Index blocks writes
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The Problems of an HTTP/3 Backend
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Encrypted Client Hello - The Pros & Cons
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The Journey of a Request to the Backend
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They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart
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WebTransport - A Backend Game Changer
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Your SSD lies but that's ok | Postgres fsync
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The problem with software engineering
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2x Faster Reads and Writes with this MongoDB feature | Clustered Collections
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Prime Video Swaps Microservices for Monolith: 90% Cost Reduction
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