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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Hosted by Hussein Nasser · technology · EN

547 episodesAudience: 31~523k on YouTube
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About this Podcast:

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 Teachhttps://husseinnasser.com/courses

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What is The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser about?

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.

Who hosts The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser is hosted by Hussein Nasser. The show has published 547 episodes to date.

What has The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Developers will be prompters (and that is bad)" (22 October 2026, 9 minutes), "AI will not replace elite engineers" (15 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'" (25 September 2026, 13 minutes).

How often does The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser publish?

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 547 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser?

Booking probability for The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser's contact route on record: public web form.

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The strongest fits for The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser are IT Services & Software Development. The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser has a technology audience and around 520,000 subscribers on YouTube.

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Hussein Nasser hosts The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser, a technology podcast with 547 episodes published.

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    Developers will be prompters (and that is bad)

    Oct 22, 20269 min

    I discuss the state of what will be happening in the coming few years and why I encourage the 3 of you who want to be elite engineers to keep their critical thinking sharp. To pause and think before prompting.

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    AI will not replace elite engineers

    Oct 15, 202656 min

    This is a conversation with Rashed Hasan, a PhD Candidate from the University of Nebraska. We chatted about databases, ORMs and how to use AI without losing yourself. Rashed pagehttps://www.mdrashedulhasan.me/homepage

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    SQL was a mistake

    Sep 18, 202612 min

    I like SQL but the standard should have included ways to hint instead of the abstraction of "let me do it for you"

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    How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll

    Jul 10, 202621 min

    The infinite scroll in social media as we know it today is despised by all. But it always start as a bad idea. It originated as a result of UI change to relief the backend database from inefficient queries. I explore...

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    Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0

    Jun 17, 202634 min

    An aws engineer discovered a 50% regression in postgres throughput while testing the new Linux 7.0 kernel. The cause turns out to be massive TLB and page faults exacerbated by Postgres process-based design. In this...

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    Don't let AI rob you

    Jun 8, 202632 min

    A discussion about why many engineers still love the struggle, the mistakes, and the process of figuring things out themselves. This is how we grow and get better and stronger. Letting AI do everything (even though it...

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    5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets

    Jan 19, 202646 min

    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...

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    Page Tables

    Dec 15, 202547 min

    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...

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    CPU and Kernel Page Faults

    Nov 24, 202549 min

    Page faults occurs when the process tries to access a memory that isn’t backed by a physical page kernel raises a fault which loads a page. It happens on first access, stack expansion, COW, swap and much more. However...

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    Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details

    Oct 31, 202524 min

    On October 19 2025 AWS experienced an outage that lasted over a day, 10 days later we finally got the root cause analysis and we know exactly what caused the DNS to fail0:00 Summary 5:30 How did Dynamo lost its...

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    Graceful shutdown in HTTP

    Oct 17, 202526 min

    There are cases where the backend may need to close the connection to prevent unexpected situations, prevent bad actors or simply just free up resources. Closing a connection gracefully allows clients and backends to...

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    Postgres 18 gets Async IO

    Oct 3, 202541 min

    Postgres 18 has been released with many exciting features such as UUIDv7, Over explain module, composite index skip scans, and the most anticipated asynchronous IO with worker and io_uring mode which I uncover in this...

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    Kernel level TLS

    Jun 13, 202523 min

    Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course https://oscourse.winktls is brilliant.TLS encryption/decryption often happens in userland. While TCP lives in the kernel. With ktls, userland can hand the keys to the kernel and...

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    The beauty of the CPU

    May 9, 202510 min

    If you are bored of contemporary topics of AI and need a breather, I invite you to join me to explore a mundane, fundamental and earthy topic. The CPU. A reading of my substack article...

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    Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster

    Apr 18, 202528 min

    This new PostgreSQL 17 feature is game changer. They know can combine IOs when performing sequential scan. Grab my database course https://courses.husseinnasser.com

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    Does discipline work?

    Apr 11, 202510 min

    No technical video today, just talking about the idea of discipline and consistency.

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    Socket management and Kernel Data structures

    Apr 4, 202531 min

    Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course This video is an overview of how the operating system kernel does socket management and the different data structures it utilizes to achieve that. timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:38...

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