The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

kTLS - Kernel level TLS

The beauty of the CPU

Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster

Does discipline work?

Socket management and Kernel Data structures

The genius of long polling

Six stages of a good software engineer

This new Linux patch can speed up Reading Requests

Cloudflare's 150ms global cache purge | Deep Dive

MySQL is having a bumpy journey

How many kernel calls in NodeJS vs Bun vs Python vs native C

When do you use threads?

Frontend and Backends Timeouts

Postgres is combining IO in version 17

Windows vs Linux Kernel

Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

io uring gets even faster

They made Python faster with this compiler option

How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS

Google Patches Linux kernel with 40% TCP performance

Database Torn pages

Cloudflare Open sources Pingora (NGINX replacement)

The Internals of MongoDB

The Beauty of Programming Languages

The Danger of Defaults - A PostgreSQL Story

Database Background writing

The Cost of Memory Fragmentation

The Real Hidden Cost of a Request

Why create Index blocks writes

The Problems of an HTTP/3 Backend

Encrypted Client Hello - The Pros & Cons

The Journey of a Request to the Backend

They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart

WebTransport - A Backend Game Changer

Your SSD lies but that's ok | Postgres fsync

The problem with software engineering

2x Faster Reads and Writes with this MongoDB feature | Clustered Collections

Prime Video Swaps Microservices for Monolith: 90% Cost Reduction

A Deep Dive in How Slow SELECT * is

AWS Serverless Lambda Supports Response Streaming

The Cloudflare mTLS vulnerability - A Deep Dive Analysis

The Virgin Media ISP outage - What happened?

GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?

Cookie Hijacking - How Linus Tech Tips got Hacked

All Postgres Locks Explained | A Deep Dive

Pinterest moves to HTTP/3

Why Loom Users got each others’ sessions on March 7th 2023

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - A deep dive

Postgres Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

How Alt-Svc switches HTTP/2 clients to use HTTP/3 | The Backend Engineering Show