{"podcast":{"title":"The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser","slug":"the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440","podcast_index_feed_id":847440,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1eb6d14/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://database.husseinnasser.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/222061/222061-1626111277047-d82a050054721.jpg","author":"Hussein Nasser","episode_count":541,"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","last_synced_at":"2026-07-11T00:20:07.790472+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440"},"episode":{"title":"Page Tables","slug":"page-tables","published_at":"2025-12-15T15:10:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/page-tables","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hnasr/episodes/Page-Tables-e39dvhk","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1eb6d14/podcast/play/109558772/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-9-12%2F89d74d1b-3aa5-a9d6-6b87-9ccf9f7c6599.m4a","summary":"Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode. 0:00 Intro 2:00 Virtual Memory ⁃ ⁃ 8:00 MMU 10:00 Page Tables ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 11:30 Single Table Byte Addressability ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 16:00 Single Table Page addressability ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ ⁃ 19:00 Multi-level Paging (Radix tree) ⁃ ⁃ 31:00 Huge Tables ⁃ ⁃ 33:00 TLB ⁃ ⁃ Summary","meta_description":"Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possibl…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/episodes/page-tables/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backend-engineering-show-with-hussein-nasser-847440/page-tables.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}