Podcast

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Author: Hussein Nasser
Feed episode count: 541
Official site: https://database.husseinnasser.com
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Summary

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 https://husseinnasser.com/courses

Episodes

Jul 10, 2026 · not_requested

How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll

Duration seconds: 1280
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/How-a-query-optimization-gave-birth-to-infinite-scroll-e3lrc2n

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Jun 17, 2026 · not_requested

Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0

Duration seconds: 2048
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Postgres-is-half-as-fast-in-Linux-7-0-e3kt2l6

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Jun 8, 2026 · not_requested

Don't let AI rob you

Duration seconds: 1913
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Dont-let-AI-rob-you-e3kh1pj

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Apr 15, 2026 · not_requested

New Book: Root cause

Duration seconds: 588
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/New-Book-Root-cause-e3hv391

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Jan 19, 2026 · not_requested

5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets

Duration seconds: 2769
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/5-Backend-Design-Patterns-for-Managing-Threads-and-Sockets-e3cpho0

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Dec 15, 2025 · not_requested

Page Tables

Duration seconds: 2799
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Page-Tables-e39dvhk

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Nov 24, 2025 · not_requested

CPU and Kernel Page Faults

Duration seconds: 2917
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/CPU-and-Kernel-Page-Faults-e39j93o

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Oct 31, 2025 · not_requested

Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details

Duration seconds: 1466
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Amazon-US-EAST-1-Outage-in-Details-e3ab3at

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Oct 17, 2025 · not_requested

Graceful shutdown in HTTP

Duration seconds: 1549
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Graceful-shutdown-in-HTTP-e38c5sc

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Oct 3, 2025 · not_requested

Postgres 18 gets Async IO

Duration seconds: 2472
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Postgres-18-gets-Async-IO-e38st84

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Jun 13, 2025 · not_requested

Kernel level TLS

Duration seconds: 1375
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Kernel-level-TLS-e344bsk

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May 9, 2025 · not_requested

The beauty of the CPU

Duration seconds: 578
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/The-beauty-of-the-CPU-e32keg3

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Apr 18, 2025 · not_requested

Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster

Duration seconds: 1656
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Sequential-Scans-in-Postgres-just-got-faster-e314nei

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Apr 11, 2025 · not_requested

Does discipline work?

Duration seconds: 606
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Does-discipline-work-e31cbfi

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Apr 4, 2025 · not_requested

Socket management and Kernel Data structures

Duration seconds: 1886
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Socket-management-and-Kernel-Data-structures-e314nd8

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Dec 6, 2024 · not_requested

The genius of long polling

Duration seconds: 1737
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/The-genius-of-long-polling-e2rgnjs

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Nov 1, 2024 · not_requested

Six stages of a good software engineer

Duration seconds: 2367
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Six-stages-of-a-good-software-engineer-e2q5j2l

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Oct 25, 2024 · not_requested

This new Linux patch can speed up Reading Requests

Duration seconds: 1092
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/This-new-Linux-patch-can-speed-up-Reading-Requests-e2q146h

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Oct 18, 2024 · not_requested

Cloudflare's 150ms global cache purge | Deep Dive

Duration seconds: 3741
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Cloudflares-150ms-global-cache-purge--Deep-Dive-e2plr0c

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Sep 28, 2024 · not_requested

MySQL is having a bumpy journey

Duration seconds: 1714
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/MySQL-is-having-a-bumpy-journey-e2oj34n

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Sep 20, 2024 · not_requested

How many kernel calls in NodeJS vs Bun vs Python vs native C

Duration seconds: 1241
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/How-many-kernel-calls-in-NodeJS-vs-Bun-vs-Python-vs-native-C-e2oedjm

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Sep 13, 2024 · not_requested

When do you use threads?

Duration seconds: 1868
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/When-do-you-use-threads-e2nvisn

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Sep 7, 2024 · not_requested

Frontend and Backends Timeouts

Duration seconds: 1523
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Frontend-and-Backends-Timeouts-e2nsp8q

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Sep 2, 2024 · not_requested

Postgres is combining IO in version 17

Duration seconds: 1659
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Postgres-is-combining-IO-in-version-17-e2nsl2c

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Aug 30, 2024 · not_requested

Windows vs Linux Kernel

Duration seconds: 2243
Source: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Windows-vs-Linux-Kernel-e2nmqib

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