# The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Official site: https://database.husseinnasser.com
Author: Hussein Nasser
Episodes: 541

## Resource

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

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## Episodes
- [How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/how-a-query-optimization-gave-birth-to-infinite-scroll) — 2026-07-10T13:50:00+00:00
- [Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/postgres-is-half-as-fast-in-linux-7-0) — 2026-06-17T13:00:00+00:00
- [Don't let AI rob you](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/don-t-let-ai-rob-you) — 2026-06-08T20:50:49+00:00
- [New Book: Root cause](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/new-book-root-cause) — 2026-04-15T16:34:40+00:00
- [5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/5-backend-design-patterns-for-managing-threads-and-sockets) — 2026-01-19T16:24:00+00:00
- [Page Tables](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/page-tables) — 2025-12-15T15:10:00+00:00
- [CPU and Kernel Page Faults](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/cpu-and-kernel-page-faults) — 2025-11-24T15:05:00+00:00
- [Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/amazon-us-east-1-outage-in-details) — 2025-10-31T21:45:55+00:00
- [Graceful shutdown in HTTP](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/graceful-shutdown-in-http) — 2025-10-17T14:00:00+00:00
- [Postgres 18 gets Async IO](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/postgres-18-gets-async-io) — 2025-10-03T14:00:00+00:00
- [Kernel level TLS](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/kernel-level-tls) — 2025-06-13T14:26:00+00:00
- [The beauty of the CPU](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/the-beauty-of-the-cpu) — 2025-05-09T17:28:34+00:00
- [Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/sequential-scans-in-postgres-just-got-faster) — 2025-04-18T14:30:00+00:00
- [Does discipline work?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/does-discipline-work) — 2025-04-11T14:29:00+00:00
- [Socket management and Kernel Data structures](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/socket-management-and-kernel-data-structures) — 2025-04-04T14:30:00+00:00
- [The genius of long polling](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/the-genius-of-long-polling) — 2024-12-06T14:01:00+00:00
- [Six stages of a good software engineer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/six-stages-of-a-good-software-engineer) — 2024-11-01T09:27:00+00:00
- [This new Linux patch can speed up Reading Requests](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/this-new-linux-patch-can-speed-up-reading-requests) — 2024-10-25T12:52:00+00:00
- [Cloudflare's 150ms global cache purge | Deep Dive](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/cloudflare-s-150ms-global-cache-purge-deep-dive) — 2024-10-18T07:15:00+00:00
- [MySQL is having a bumpy journey](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/mysql-is-having-a-bumpy-journey) — 2024-09-28T02:31:00+00:00
- [How many kernel calls in NodeJS vs Bun vs Python vs native C](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/how-many-kernel-calls-in-nodejs-vs-bun-vs-python-vs-native-c) — 2024-09-20T21:05:00+00:00
- [When do you use threads?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/when-do-you-use-threads) — 2024-09-13T23:48:00+00:00
- [Frontend and Backends Timeouts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/frontend-and-backends-timeouts) — 2024-09-07T23:02:00+00:00
- [Postgres is combining IO in version 17](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/postgres-is-combining-io-in-version-17) — 2024-09-02T20:22:00+00:00
- [Windows vs Linux Kernel](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/windows-vs-linux-kernel) — 2024-08-30T03:26:00+00:00

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