The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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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🧑🏫 Courses I Teach
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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
Buy me a coffee
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr
🧑🏫 Courses I Teach
https://husseinnasser.com/courses
Episodes
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Jan 24, 2018 • 4min
Episode 20 - Cool feature in git
I discovered git submodules today. I talk about how I found them and how they helped my code reusability.
Jan 24, 2018 • 5min
Episode 19 - Python as a Web Server
We answer the question can Python runs on the backend and serve REST end points
Jan 24, 2018 • 5min
Episode 18 - Memory Leaks
We discuss memory leaks. What are they? How they happen? How dangerous can they be?
Jan 23, 2018 • 5min
Episode 17 - UX ... then REST
We discuss how an engineer can save tremendous design and architecture efforts at the backend building the REST services by actually starting with the user experience. As usual with an example. Cheers y’all
Jan 23, 2018 • 5min
Episode 16 - TheDragon fights Engineers too
We talk about how the we are meant to create beautiful art and how the resistance (the dragon) is stopping us from putting that work out there.
Jan 19, 2018 • 7min
Episode 15 - I Wrote Bad Front-End Code
While building an Alien Invasion javascript game I wrote some bad code that froze my chrome. I discuss the unscalable piece of code and go through how I discovered it and how to fix it.
Jan 19, 2018 • 6min
Episode 14 - Learn Software By Doing
With new technologies it becomes overwhelming for engineers to learn. We discuss one of the best ways to learn the new technologies by doing projects using them. Step out of your comfort zone and build apps using those tech!
Jan 18, 2018 • 10min
Episode 13 - Do Developers Make Lousy UX?
In this episode we discuss why lot of people think Developers make unusable and lousy user experiences and interfaces. We take examples of Windows vs Mac and a throw back from a blog post I wrote 10 years ago. Enjoy
Jan 16, 2018 • 10min
Episode 12 - Stateless vs Stateful
We discuss stateless and stateful client / server architecture using instagram as an example.
Jan 13, 2018 • 13min
Episode 11 - Persistence
We discuss how persistence at the client side. We bring Siri, Whatsapp and Twitter s examples of dealing with persistence of draft, lost and unsent messages .
