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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Hussein Nasser

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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...

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Episodes (543)

A Deep Dive in How Slow SELECT * is

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AWS Serverless Lambda Supports Response Streaming

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Apr 7, 202313:14pending

The Cloudflare mTLS vulnerability - A Deep Dive Analysis

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Apr 6, 202343:13pending

The Virgin Media ISP outage - What happened?

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Apr 6, 202323:23pending

GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?

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Mar 30, 202321:56pending

Cookie Hijacking - How Linus Tech Tips got Hacked

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Mar 29, 202313:33pending

All Postgres Locks Explained | A Deep Dive

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Mar 19, 202349:11pending

Pinterest moves to HTTP/3

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Mar 16, 202325:53pending

Why Loom Users got each others’ sessions on March 7th 2023

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Mar 14, 202314:58pending

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - A deep dive

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Mar 11, 20231:09:20pending

Postgres Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

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Feb 16, 202334:04pending

How Alt-Svc switches HTTP/2 clients to use HTTP/3 | The Backend Engineering Show

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Your DNS queries will eventually look like this (0x20 DNS encoding)

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Jan 28, 202326:20pending

DropBox Removed their SSDs, got 20% faster writes

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Jan 24, 202331:18pending

MySQL on HTTP/3 | The Backend Engineering Show

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Jan 5, 202337:10pending

How Shopify’s engineering improved writes by 50% with ULID | The Backend Enginee...

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Dec 23, 202232:10pending

MongoDB Internal Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

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Dec 16, 202244:13pending

How UI/UX can break the backend

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Dec 1, 202230:35pending

Do DHCP and DNS Servers Communicate?

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Nov 16, 202230:27pending

Compressing Certificates in TLS | The Backend Engineering Show

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Nov 8, 202234:06pending

OpenSSL new vulnerability

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Nov 6, 202210:27pending

TCP Protective Load Balancing coming to Linux Kernel 6.2

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Nov 3, 202214:50pending

When NodeJS I/O Blocks | The Backend Engineering Show

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Oct 12, 202225:57pending

NGINX Internal Architecture - Workers | The Backend Engineering Show

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Cloudflare is moving away from NGINX | The Backend Engineering Show

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Threads and Connections | The Backend Engineering Show

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Sep 1, 202250:18pending

Memcached Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

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Aug 27, 202250:29pending

Is SmartNIC a game changer for network performance? | The Backend Engineering Sh...

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Aug 15, 202221:23pending

Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

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Aug 6, 202224:42pending

Replacing TCP for the Datacenter - Discussing the Homa paper

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Aug 1, 20221:23:44pending

ByteDance makes Linux kernel reboots faster

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Jul 26, 202211:10pending

This dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability can easily be triggered | CVE-2022-2274 Exp...

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Jul 15, 20229:23pending

NULLs are weird, PG15 makes them less weird

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Jul 13, 20226:45pending

This decades old function in Linux is now 4 times faster

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Jul 12, 20227:08pending

Amazon Aurora Supports Postgres 14

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Jul 11, 202212:13pending

Canada Rogers ISP Internet Outage - Early report and speculation

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Jul 11, 202214:12pending

Index Fill Factor | The Backend Engineering Show

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Jul 11, 202234:36pending

HTTP 103 - Early Hints

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Jul 4, 202211:20pending

YugabyteDB supports read committed isolation

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Jun 30, 202211:57pending

Mutual TLS | The Backend Engineering Show

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Jun 27, 202251:04pending

Cloudflare Outage Analysis - Jun 21 2022

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Jun 22, 202225:03pending

When CSS loads last - HTTP Request Prioritization (RFC 9218) | The Backend Engin...

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Jun 20, 202236:10pending

What is a zero day attack?

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Jun 5, 20225:55pending

This project could free millions of IPv4 addresses, but is it worth it?

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Jun 2, 202211:17pending

Sorting in Postgres 15 is 371% faster in certain cases

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Jun 1, 20229:37pending

UDP hole punching

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May 30, 202216:51pending

Software engineering and Nursery rhymes

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May 29, 20229:12pending

Linux Big TCP might be a game changer for Google (and other cloud providers)

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May 28, 202214:16pending

Redo, Undo and WAL logs | The Backend Engineering Show

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May 26, 202240:40pending

The software engineer mental health

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