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
Nov 7, 2020 • 1h 37min
GeoDNS, Active Active, MicroServices, Evil Garbage Collectors and More! Live with Hussein Nasser
Live Q&A discussion of different backend engineering topics
Nov 5, 2020 • 31min
Facebook Moves their Backend and Frontend to QUIC, it wasn’t smooth but they saw great results Let us discuss
Facebook move to QUIC from TCP was not smooth but they did see some improvement in all their apps. Let us discuss this
Article
https://engineering.fb.com/networking-traffic/how-facebook-is-bringing-quic-to-billions/
0:00 Intro
3:00 What is QUIC?
10:45 Facebook Backend
14:30 FaceBook Frontend
15:20 GraphQL
17:00 The Trouble with QUIC
23:00 Static & Video Content
25:15 Instagram App
26:00 QUIC Future
Nov 3, 2020 • 20min
Installing This Twilio Malware NPM Package Opens a Backdoor on Your Developer Machine
SonaType detected a Malware in NPM registry imitating to be Twilio package that opens a reverse connection to a remote server and allows attacker to access your local machine content. Let us discuss
Since this command is unix specific it won’t work on Windows
https://blog.sonatype.com/twilio-npm-is-brandjacking-malware-in-disguise
Resources
SSH Tunneling https://youtu.be/N8f5zv9UUMI
Ngrok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR2qNnVIuKE
Nov 2, 2020 • 8min
Chrome dedicated certificate root store is coming soon, what does that mean? let us discuss
According to ZDNET "Chrome will soon have its own dedicated certificate root store" Let us discuss what that might mean to privacy https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-will-soon-have-its-own-dedicated-certificate-root-store/
Nov 2, 2020 • 21min
Remotely access any TCP/UDP service bound to a victim machine - Let us discuss NAT Slipstreaming
Ever heard of HTTP Smuggling? will this is smuggling a TCP packet into an HTTP body so that it can be interpreted by the router to open internal ports to your machine. NAT Slipstreaming was discovered by Samy Kamkar, Article and research by @SamyKamkar https://samy.pl/slipstream/
Oct 31, 2020 • 1h 36min
TLS - Live Stream (by Hussein Nasser)
Let us have a casual chat about TLS, Security, Certificates and more
13 snips
Oct 24, 2020 • 1h 27min
All About Database ACID
In this live stream I discuss all about Database ACID one by one and we also answer interesting questions!
Enjoy!
Watch stream here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCKZ3VZ87Qo&feature=youtu.be
Oct 23, 2020 • 14min
Should You Become a Full stack Engineer?
My Thoughts on Full Stack Engineering
Oct 22, 2020 • 28min
Uber’s new Backend Architecture for Processing Payments
In this video I discuss the new Uber Backend Architecture that they deployed to process payments and jobs and orders. https://youtu.be/mL0fzj7e6WU
Revolutionizing Money Movements at Scale with Strong Data Consistency
https://eng.uber.com/money-scale-strong-data/
Oct 20, 2020 • 35min
Column vs Row Oriented Databases Explained
In this video, I explain the differences between Column vs Row Oriented Database Storage how efficient each method is, and their pros & cons
0:00 Intro
2:50 Row-Oriented Database
15:30 Column-Oriented Database
26:30 Pros & Cons
