
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
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Latest episodes

Jan 19, 2022 • 21min
Is ULTRARAM a game changer? | Backend Engineering Show
Scientists at the Physics and Engineering Department of the UK’s Lancaster University published a new paper describing ULTRARAM. A Low-Energy, High-Endurance, Compound-Semiconductor Memory on Silicon.
I think this tech is a game changer but I still have my doubts. Let us discuss
0:00 Intro
0:30 RAM
4:00 SSD
11:00 UltraRAM
17:30 Doubts
* RAM (Dynamic RAM)
* Fast access with capacitors
* random access
* requires power to be refreshed
* Flash NAND (SSD)
* Pros fast random access (FTL)
* Block storage
* Requires high voltage (20V to erase/ 7.5 to program)
* Low durability endurance which then (write amplification + garbage collection )
* UltraRAM uses a new novel approach to the memory cell design that only need 2.5 V to program/erase, low power which saves the memory cell lifetime https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/fowler-nordheim-tunnelling
* High endurance program/erase last longer
* High retention
* GC/WA not required
* Limitations: still we know very little
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aelm.202101103

Jan 16, 2022 • 26min
My website went down - enom outage analysis
enom my DNS registrar had an outage which took down my site husseinnasser.com lets discuss 0:00 Intro 5:00 How DNS Works 12:00 Outage report 16:00 Will I migrate my DNS? 21:40 Does decentralize mean anything anymore?

Jan 5, 2022 • 21min
Thoughts on Low code | The Backend Engineering Show
In this episode of the backend engineering show, I’ll discuss the low code movements and their pros and cons.
0:00 Intro
2:00 Evolution of Languages
8:40 Low Code Movement
10:00 Side Effect of Low Code
13:00 Leaky Abstractions
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Jan 3, 2022 • 21min
Tech I want to explore in 2022
These are some fundamental technologies that I want to explore in 2022. 0:00 The Way I learn 4:20 Database Engineering 7:00 Network Engineering 9:30 Hardware and Operating Systems 15:00 The problem with software engineering Collateral Knowledge Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKbVpWmeLM&t=3s Become a Member on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg/join 🔥 Members Only Content https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUMO_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg Fundamentals of Database Engineering udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://database.husseinnasser.com Introduction to NGINX (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://nginx.husseinnasser.com Python on the Backend (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://nginx.husseinnasser.com

Dec 29, 2021 • 20min
How TikTok short content is delivered through HTTP - Devtooling TikTok
Welcome to another dev tools video, in this video I use dev tools to break down how Tiktok website works to pull short-form content.
We will use therock as a subject. It is an interesting episode, enjoy

Dec 23, 2021 • 37min
An HTTP request journey to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show
In this episode of the backend engineering show, I explain the journey of an HTTP request that gets initiated from a click on a link. I discuss DNS, TCP, API Gateways, reverse proxies, load balancers, backend web servers, and much more.
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Dec 23, 2021 • 37min
The Journey of an HTTP request to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show
In this episode of the backend engineering show, I explain the journey of an HTTP request that gets initiated from a click on a link. I discuss DNS, TCP, API Gateways, reverse proxies, load balancers, backend web servers, and much more.
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Dec 19, 2021 • 19min
Log4DoS - New Denial of Service discovered in log4j | The Backend Engineering Show
Right after the latest patch log 4j 2.16, a new denial of service vulnerability surfaced on log4j resulting in a new 2.17 patch. Let us discuss.
0:00 log4dos
4:50 History of log4j fixes
15:20 All love to the open source maintainers
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Dec 18, 2021 • 54min
Detailed analysis on the Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage - Video Podcast
In this episode of the backend engineering show, we go through a deep dive to uncover the reason behind the outage on December 7th, 2021 Amazon outage.
RCA
https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721
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Dec 18, 2021 • 55min
Detailed analysis on the Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage | The Backend Engineering Show
In this episode of the backend engineering show, we go through a deep dive to uncover the reason behind the outage on December 7th, 2021 Amazon outage.
RCA
https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721
All outage analysis videos
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