Episode

5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets

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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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Jan 19, 2026

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Summary

In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests.