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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.
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- 2 weeks ago9 min
Developers will be prompters (and that is bad)
I discuss the state of what will be happening in the coming few years and why I encourage the 3 of you who want to be elite engineers to keep their critical thinking sharp. To pause and think before prompting.
- 3 weeks ago56 min
AI will not replace elite engineers
This is a conversation with Rashed Hasan, a PhD Candidate from the University of Nebraska. We chatted about databases, ORMs and how to use AI without losing yourself. Rashed pagehttps://www.mdrashedulhasan.me/homepage
- Sep 25, 202612 min
Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'
I discuss loops engineering and how it will numb creative thinking and critical system design for engineers.
- Sep 18, 202612 min
SQL was a mistake
I like SQL but the standard should have included ways to hint instead of the abstraction of "let me do it for you"
- Sep 11, 202615 min
Caching is a cop-out
In this episode I explore why you should take some time to examine the operation you are caching before doing so. And why caching is a cop-out
- Aug 23, 202617 min
How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
- Jul 10, 202621 min
How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll
The infinite scroll in social media as we know it today is despised by all. But it always start as a bad idea. It originated as a result of UI change to relief the backend database from inefficient queries. I explore this in this episode of the backend engineering. 0:00 Intro1:00 Classic Paged results 6:23 Limitations of paging9:00 The scroll interface 12:00 How TikTok to infinite scroll 14:00 The current state
- Jun 17, 202634 min
Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0
An aws engineer discovered a 50% regression in postgres throughput while testing the new Linux 7.0 kernel. The cause turns out to be massive TLB and page faults exacerbated by Postgres process-based design. In this backend engineering show episode I dive deep into how this was discovered, the root cause and the possible fixes and workarounds. Intermediate and Advanced Backend Engineering Course Bundlehttps://courses.husseinnasser.com/bundleMy Book, Root Cause: Stories and Lessons from Two Decades of Backend Engineering Bugs https://amzn.to/4cKfZhe 0:00 Intro2:30 The Discovery6:30 Spinlocks9:25 Preemption 13:00 Root Cause17:00 How Postgres Processes exacerbated the problem 22:30 Is the fix easy?25:50 Summary
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