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 kee...
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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 te...
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20 of 547 episodesAI 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 A...
Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'
I discuss loops engineering and how it will numb creative thinking and critical system design for engineers.
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"
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-o...
How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
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...
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...
Don't let AI rob you
A discussion about why many engineers still love the struggle, the mistakes, and the process of figuring things out themselves. This is how...
My new book - Root cause, Stories from two decades of backend bugs
I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause , and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineer...
5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets
In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is establi...
Page Tables
Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as f...
CPU and Kernel Page Faults
Page faults occurs when the process tries to access a memory that isn’t backed by a physical page kernel raises a fault which loads a page....
Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details
On October 19 2025 AWS experienced an outage that lasted over a day, 10 days later we finally got the root cause analysis and we know exactl...
Graceful shutdown in HTTP
There are cases where the backend may need to close the connection to prevent unexpected situations, prevent bad actors or simply just free...
Postgres 18 gets Async IO
Postgres 18 has been released with many exciting features such as UUIDv7, Over explain module, composite index skip scans, and the most anti...
Kernel level TLS
Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://oscourse.winktls is brilliant.TLS encryption/decryption often happens in userland. While TC...
The beauty of the CPU
If you are bored of contemporary topics of AI and need a breather, I invite you to join me to explore a mundane, fundamental and earthy topi...
Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster
This new PostgreSQL 17 feature is game changer. They know can combine IOs when performing sequential scan. Grab my database course https://c...
Does discipline work?
No technical video today, just talking about the idea of discipline and consistency.