The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

528 Episodes

1. Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster

   Published: 4/18/2025
2. Does discipline work?

   Published: 4/11/2025
3. Socket management and Kernel Data structures

   Published: 4/4/2025
4. The genius of long polling

   Published: 12/6/2024
5. Six stages of a good software engineer

   Published: 11/1/2024
6. This new Linux patch can speed up Reading Requests

   Published: 10/25/2024
7. Cloudflare's 150ms global cache purge | Deep Dive

   Published: 10/18/2024
8. MySQL is having a bumpy journey

   Published: 9/28/2024
9. How many kernel calls in NodeJS vs Bun vs Python vs native C

   Published: 9/20/2024
10. When do you use threads?

    Published: 9/13/2024
11. Frontend and Backends Timeouts

    Published: 9/7/2024
12. Postgres is combining IO in version 17

    Published: 9/2/2024
13. Windows vs Linux Kernel

    Published: 8/30/2024
14. Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

    Published: 8/25/2024
15. io uring gets even faster

    Published: 5/20/2024
16. They made Python faster with this compiler option

    Published: 5/7/2024
17. How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS

    Published: 4/29/2024
18. Google Patches Linux kernel with 40% TCP performance

    Published: 3/5/2024
19. Database Torn pages

    Published: 2/29/2024
20. Cloudflare Open sources Pingora (NGINX replacement)

    Published: 2/28/2024