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Dec 2022
30m 35s

How UI/UX can break the backend

Hussein Nasser
About this episode

The User Interface/User Experience has great impact on the backend architecture and scalability. In this podcast I discuss three UI/UX that affected backend design and scalability.

0:00 Intro

1:40 UI vs UX

4:30 Google Chrome OmniBox

12:30 1 out of X Page

20:00 YouTube Notification

Resources

https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/21/chromiums-impact-on-root-dns-traffic/

Fundamentals of Backend Engineering Design patterns udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon)

https://backend.husseinnasser.com

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