
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

Sep 30, 2020 • 6min
How did I get served an Instagram Ad by browsing a completely different website?
In this video I explain how I was browsing a website (displate) and was served the exact same thing on my Instagram feed

Sep 30, 2020 • 18min
HTTPS and HTTP/3 negotiation is now Faster thanks to Cloudflare, RIP HSTS, Let us Discuss
Watch the Video here
https://youtu.be/76sgBHUl7iI
Alessandro Ghedini wrote an interesting article discussing how DNS queries can help speed up HTTPS and HTTP/3 communication let us discuss this article
https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-negotiation-with-dns/
3:30 TLS video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlE5X1NlHgg
4:57 HSTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhMnw4aJTw
8:15 http/2 c smuggling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2VEQ3jFq6Q
15:30 ESNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zlO5-NWFU

Sep 29, 2020 • 13min
Microsoft 365 Outage, What Happened and What Caused it? Let us discuss
On September 28 2020 Microsoft 365 Service went down, what caused it? and what did Microsoft did to solve it.
Resources
https://twitter.com/msft365status/status/1310696819135901696?s=21
https://status.office.com/
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_account-mso_imobile-mso_o365b/error-aadsts90033/d2ba3ef2-fe85-411d-b4fe-5c44df1e121c
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365admin-mso_other-mso_o365b/aadsts90033-a-transient-error-has-occurred-please/8117f18e-9de9-46d7-9505-1708b2a1c732
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/35944/aadsts90033-a-transient-error-has-occurred-please.html

Sep 24, 2020 • 9min
When to Build a Stateless vs Stateful Back-ends using the right protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP, QUIC, WebSockets)
In this video I explain how communication protocols are built on top of each other and how each protocol can be stateful or stateless. We need to understand this in order to know which protocol to use to build the right backend.

Sep 23, 2020 • 13min
Russia Follows in China’s footsteps and attempts to block TLS 1.3, ESNI, DoH & DoT, let us discuss
It looks like Russia is submitting a proposal to block TLS 1.3, ESNI, DoH , DoT, let us discuss Resources https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-wants-to-ban-the-use-of-secure-protocols-such-as-tls-1-3-doh-dot-esni/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM

Sep 22, 2020 • 11min
Casting Firefox to your TV, Roku or Game Console? Watch out for this major DANGEROUS bug!
What scared me about this bug is how EASY it is to execute, no MITM, no special software.. its all exploiting of existing software.. Let us discuss The SSDP engine in Firefox for Android (68.11.0 and below) can be tricked into triggering Android intent URIs with zero user interaction. This attack can be leveraged by attackers on the same WiFi network and manifests as applications on the target device suddenly launching, without the users' permission, and conducting activities allowed by the intent. Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-security/security-operations/gl-redteam/red-team-tech-notes/-/tree/master/firefox-android-2020 https://twitter.com/init_string https://twitter.com/LukasStefanko/status/1307013106615418883

Sep 18, 2020 • 22min
GoogleBot Crawler Now Uses HTTP/2 to Index the Web, Let us discuss how this affects our Back-end?
Google Bot is now attempting to use HTTP/2 to crawl the web
Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2 or h2 for short, web professionals asked us whether Googlebot can crawl over the upgraded, more modern version of the protocol.
Today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over HTTP/2 for select sites.
Article
https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/09/googlebot-will-soon-speak-http2.html
* Intro 0:00
* What is a Crawler 1:06
* Current Crawler uses h1 2:00
* Crawler now uses h2 4:40
* Less connections, slightly high CPU usage 6:30
* Opting out of h2 crawling 9:00
* FAQ 11:40
Http/2 playlist 0;50 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWbBegaU790WhH7gNKcMAl-
http/2 not cheap 7;00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GriONb4EfPY
lucid chart 9;50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gejfT1h6LBo
h2c smuggling 18:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2VEQ3jFq6Q

Sep 18, 2020 • 8min
How I Got "Slightly" Better at Communicating my Ideas Effectively as a Software Engineer
In this video, I explain how I got better at communicating my thoughts, opinions and ideas and how making content on YouTube Channel actually helped. I still have a long way but I found that making content and continuously trying to get better at delivering the core point helps.

Sep 17, 2020 • 28min
My Opinion on the “Stop Using React” Article
There was a recent article titled Stop Using React which spawned lots of discussions. I want to give my thoughts on this article and React in general. Resources https://dev.to/ender_minyard/why-you-should-stop-using-react-g7c
https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/ 0:00 Intro
3:20 Its Slow
8:30 Its expensive
12:00 its inaccessible
14:00 React goes against the web
18:00 made by facebook
21:00 my thoughts

Sep 14, 2020 • 14min
Best Practices Working with Billion-row Tables in Databases
In this video, I discuss 3 methods to work with tables of billion rows. This discussion is inspired by a comment on my YouTube video on Twitter System Design right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfq-LG9ZJQA&lc=UgyYbm5889dW0XtKhsV4AaABAg
Chapters
Intro 0:00
1. Brute Force Distributed Processing 2:30
2. Working with a Subset of table 3:35
2.1 Indexing 3:55
2.2 Partitioning 5:30
2.3 Sharding 7:30
3. Avoid it all together (reshuffle the whole design) 9:10
Summary 11:30