The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Firefox has disabled TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 to improve your website connections. Sites that don't support TLS version 1.2 will now show an error page.  We reverted the change for an undetermined amount of time to better enable access to critical government sites sharing COVID19 information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grVVuGnN9IE https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/ https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1242515799215988737?s=21

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In this video, I discuss the path of becoming a backend engineer through concepts and fundamentals. These are not tools 🧰 these are backend concepts and fundamentals technologies.    - Communication Protocols 3:30     - TCP,UDP     - QUIC     - HTTP     - WebSockets     - gRPC - Web Servers 8:40     - How web servers work?     - Dynamic vs Static Content     - E-Tags      - HTTP protocol  - Database Engineering 11:00     - Relational vs NoSQL     - ACID - Proxies (Reverse Proxies, Load balancer) 13:31     - What is difference between Proxy vs Reverse Proxy     - Layer 7 Proxy vs Layer 4 Proxy      - Reverse Proxy applications     - Load Balancing algorithms  - Caching 15:40     - When to use Caching - Message queue, Pub/Sub 16:36     - When to use PubSub messaging first queue.  - Web Frameworks (API authoring) 18:30     - Express, Django, Node JS  - Message Formats (JSON, protobuf) 19:24     - JSON & protobuf  - Security 20:50     - TLS, Encryption, Firewalls

FireFox DNS over HTTPS is a great step to a more secure web however it is absolutely useless without this ESNI. I also discuss doh in this video, esni and why this might not be a good idea https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/02/25/firefox-continues-push-to-bring-dns-over-https-by-default-for-us-users/

In this video I want to talk over the active active active vs active passive cluster configuration for high availability. We will also explain the pros & cons of using an active-active cluster vs using an active-passive cluster.

A sidecar proxy is an application design pattern which abstracts certain networking features, such as inter-service communications, monitoring and security, timeouts, retries, communication protocols, away from the main architecture to ease the maintenance of the application as a whole. In this video I’d like to talk about how we classically do things: Library Pattern getComments HTTP1:1/JSON Add features retries/timeout /hardcode the server name what it changed/add new server to load balance between them/credentials Sidecar pattern getComments HTTP/2 Sidecar proxy/container Examples Microservices (Linkerd, Envoy, Istio) Pros Language agnostic (polyglot) Protocol upgrade Security Tracing and Monitoring Service Discovery Caching Cons Complexity Latency SideCar Proxy must be layer 7 Library 2:25 Sidecar: 7:40 Example: 13:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3Ku1XeOn8) Pros & Cons : 16:15 Cards 6:22 HTTP/2 10;50 Reverse Proxy / proxy example 13:00 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3Ku1XeOn8) 16:00 Layer 4 vs Layer 7 load balancer

MySQL 8.0 supports atomic Data Definition Language (DDL) statements. This feature is referred to as atomic DDL. An atomic DDL statement combines the data dictionary updates, storage engine operations, and binary log writes associated with a DDL operation into a single, atomic transaction. The transaction is either committed, with applicable changes persisted to the data dictionary, storage engine, and binary log, or is rolled back, even if the server halts during the operation. I discuss mySQL 8.0 atomic ddl compared to Postgres transactional ddl

gRPC (gRPC Remote Procedure Calls[1]) is an open source remote procedure call (RPC) system initially developed at Google in 2015[2]. It uses HTTP/2 for transport, Protocol Buffers as the message format. In this video I want to explore gRPC, go through examples, pros and cons of gRPC. Client/ Server communication SOAP HTTP (REST) WebSockets Client Libraries gRPC gRPC Demo todos gRPC Pros and Cons Pros Fast two/uni and request Unform One library to rule them all Progress feedback( long synchronous requests) drop pluggable wait...) cancel request All benefits of H2 and Protobuff Cons schema based (not everyone wants schema) Thick client - limited languages - Proxies still don’t understand it Still young Error handling No native browser support Timeouts, circuit breaker just like any RPC (pub/sub rules in this case) Can you create your own protocol? Spotify example with Hermes

Firefox version 73.1 fixes a bug that prevented users from signing into Royal Canadian Bank  (Firefox fixed a bug that prevented Canadians from signing in to their bank royal Canadian bank) what caused it? Lets get into it   * Users will sign in and will get blank page.  * Cause Beacon API and HTTP/2  * Bug has been there forever    Sources https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613943#c16 🏭 Software Architecture Videos