# 5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets

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Podcast: [The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440)
Published: 2026-01-19T16:24:00+00:00
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## Resource

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.

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