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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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

Episodes

Redo, Undo and WAL logs | The Backend Engineering Show

26 May 2022

40m

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This episode explores the intricacies of database logging, focusing on the write-ahead log (WAL), redo logs, and undo logs. Against the backdrop of ensuring data durability and crash recovery, the speaker delves into different implementation strategies for commit operations. More significantly, the discussion highligh...

This episode explores the architecture and functionality of the Domain Name System (DNS), contrasting a naive centralized database approach with the actual distributed system used. Against the backdrop of the internet's billions of websites, the speaker highlights the scalability challenges of a single database soluti...

The Beauty of the Internet Protocol

24 Apr 2022

26m

Caching is hard | The Backend Engineering Show

15 Apr 2022

21m

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This episode explores the complexities of caching in backend engineering, using a Forem article as a case study. Against the backdrop of the common adage that "cache invalidation and naming things are the two hard problems in computer science," the host delves into the three levels of caching—edge caching, Rails cachi...