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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...

Episodes (543)

Browser Caching best practices, when to use no-cache vs max-age without breaking...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Apr 7, 202118:59pending

Write Amplification Explained in Backend Apps, Database Systems and SSDs

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Apr 5, 202122:22pending

DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services on April’s fool day (with Bonus...

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Apr 4, 202126:48pending

My Python CRUD App hits 2 million rows, Should I Shard my Database?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Apr 3, 202121:16pending

cURL TLS 1.3 session ticket proxy host mixup Vulnerability

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 31, 20219:56pending

PHP’s Source Code hacked - Two Remote Code execution added to the Git server, le...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 31, 20218:47pending

What happens when your Web Server Private Key is Leaked?

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Mar 28, 202124:32pending

Researcher bypasses Azure, and Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Security - HTTP/2 Smuggl...

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Mar 26, 202114:09pending

High severity flaw can crash your WebServer when using OpenSSL - Let us discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 26, 202117:49pending

When is NodeJS Single Threaded and when is it multi-Threaded?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 24, 20219:06pending

Slack's Migrating Millions of Websockets from HAProxy to Envoy, let's discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 21, 202135:44pending

Why WebSockets over HTTP/2 (RFC8441) is Critical for Effective Load Balancing an...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 21, 202116:08pending

How HTTP Compression Leaks Sessions and JWT - CRIME Explained and how HPACK in H...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 19, 202121:05pending

The Second Microsoft Global Outage in less than 6 months

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Mar 16, 202112:44pending

Is there a Limit to Number of Connections a Backend can handle?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 16, 202119:33pending

Fire Destroys Datacenter in France, Let us discuss the OVHcloud Fire

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 11, 202113:32pending

Firefox State Partitioning for Cookies Might End Evil Tracking forever

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 10, 20218:41pending

Did you get logged out of GitHub? - Backend Race condition Bug discussion

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 10, 202115:33pending

Chrome 90 will start communicating in HTTPS (port 443) by Default - Let us discu...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 4, 202112:33pending

S3 compliant MinIO Suffers an Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability, lets di...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Mar 1, 202110:45pending

Which DBMS will Implement QUIC First? Can the QUIC Protocol improve Database Per...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 25, 202113:04pending

3 New Ways to Crash your NodeJS Server, Update Node JS today! (Feb 2021 Security...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 24, 202110:55pending

cURL creator Daniel Stenberg threatened - The entitlement towards OSS needs to S...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 19, 20215:48pending

SRE changes a single HAProxy config, Breaks the Backend and he troubleshoots it...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 19, 20217:23pending

A Bug in Stripe Caused by AWS Lambda Serverless Design (Container re-use)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 17, 202115:26pending

XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (with Node JS and eJabberd)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 15, 202119:07pending

How timeouts can make or break your Backend load balancers

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 15, 202121:25pending

He Hacked Into Apple and Microsoft with this genius trick

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 11, 202116:11pending

CQRS is probably the cause of the Microservices madness

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 7, 20217:19pending

Can China Block the New Encrypted Client Hello TLS Extension? Let us Discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 7, 202129:07pending

UUIDs are Bad for Performance in MySQL - Does Postgres Win? Let us Discuss

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 4, 202121:00pending

They Freed up 70GB of Unused Indexes Space on Postgres, How did they Do it?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 2, 202118:36pending

How do I learn new tech as a software engineer

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Feb 1, 202118:57pending

Overview of InterPlanetary File System - IPFS with (Examples with Command line &...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 31, 202125:10pending

This Certificate Authority is being banned from Google

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 29, 20218:54pending

Is SELECT * Expensive?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 28, 20217:38pending

This YouTube Backend API Leaks Private Videos - Research rewarded $5000

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 24, 202116:31pending

He found a way to Hijack Private Google Docs Screenshots with a clever hack - Go...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 24, 202110:59pending

Brave is Decentralized - Users can Consume and HOST IPFS Decentralized Web Conte...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 22, 202112:34pending

RIP FTP - Chrome depreciates FTP for good

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 19, 20216:06pending

The 2021 Slack Outage (Detailed analysis)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 15, 202144:20pending

HAProxy is closer to QUIC and HTTP/3 Support - Let’s discuss HAProxy 2.3

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 14, 202122:26pending

Apache Kafka 2.7 is One Step Closer to Killing ZooKeeper

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 13, 202119:17pending

Is EventStoreDB the First Native gRPC Database?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 12, 202112:43pending

Demonstrate your Skills as Backend Engineer To Recruiters - Building a Full Back...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 10, 202120:36pending

WhatsApp’s Ultimatum, What can They see and What are They Collecting (In Details...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 9, 202120:35pending

Have a Node JS Server? Update it Now!

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 7, 20217:25pending

The Slack Outage (Early Report & Speculations)

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 5, 202111:31pending

My Thoughts on How Clever the SolarWinds Hack Really Is

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 4, 20215:30pending

Got Bit by A Docker Default on my Postgres Container, Interesting Story, let us...

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Jan 3, 20215:43pending
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