The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

In this video I explain the difference between Agile & Water, the pros & cons and more. Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:00 Waterfall 5:00 Agile

In this video I explain how WebSockets work in the new HTTP/2 protocol. This is explained in the  Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2 in RFC8441 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8441 https://link.medium.com/v5sB9nbUp6  1:00 HTTP2 5:50 HTTP/2 limitations

Metroexpress lane is implementing a Machine Learning Occupancy Detection System which I found interesting. In this video I discuss machine learning, supervised learning, labeling and much more.

In this video I explain the multi-tenancy architecture. The basic idea is to have a single instance of your application to serve multiple tenants or customers and the properties are this. This is as opposed to isolated or dedicated infrastructure. Shared Instance One database hosting multiple customers Isolation at the application level Can be multi-processes and multi-instances as long as they ar...

Algorithms & Data Structures are critical to Backend Engineering however it really depends on what kind of application and infrastructure you are building. In this video I want to go through the following   1 Backend Engineers are two types - Integrating Existing Backend  - Core Backend  Example Building a CRUD API? Online Cinema system, URL shortener, You will pick up a da...

In this video I want to talk about my preferred method of learning backend engineering technologies, I prefer podcasts and youtube videos some people prefer books. My First Programming Book My Problem with Learning in Books My Preferred Method of learning (Podcasts) YouTube Videos Problem is Biased .. Details in WIkipedia then Recommended Podcasts https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/ https://www....

Message Queues system like RabbitMQ and Kafka are amazing technologies but when should you actually use a message queue? I discuss this in this video.

In this video I talk about RabbitMQ Channels compared to HTTP/2 Streams and how QUIC helps mitigate some of the major limitations in Channels and Streams. Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:10 RabbitMQ Channels 3:10 HTTP/2 Streams 6:00 How QUIC Helps

In this video I discuss why QUIC will make a great communication protocol for databases and how it solves a critical problem with stateless web applications. Web applications uses database connection pooling to establish database connections on the backend. But that creates other sorts of problems. Timecodes 0:00 Intro 0:20 Database Communication Protocols 2:00 Problem with Sharing Database Connec...

Database Application level sharding is the process of splitting a table into multiple database instances in order to distribute the load. However, Sharding a database is an expensive operation (maintainability and overhead) and I suggest you do that only when you absolutely need to. That means when your single instance database can no longer serve queries with minimum latency. So I suggest you mon...

In this video I give some advice to junior backend engineers who just started their new jobs and feel overwhelmed. Backend engineering jobs can be overwhelming at the start, there are so much to learn, so much to read, documentation, tests, code in multiple programming languages. Here are some advice for Junior backend engineers. 0:00 Intro 1:20 Take your time 6:05 Stay hungry keep learning 8:36 A...

Creating a software design is an art here is why 

Software Testing is Art, In this video, I discuss what makes a Good Software Tester. How can you become a better software tester that people line up to give pick you? Organizations build software products. But the software is useless if it is filled with bugs. A bug discovered after the product is shipped costs the organization a lot of money. A bug that is discovered before shipping saves the org...

JSON Web Token  ( JWT , sometimes pronounced JOT) an internet standard for creating  JSON -based  access tokens  that assert some number of claims. The tokens are signed either using a private secret or a public/private key. In this video I want to discuss the difference between JWT and Session Based Auth, will show examples with Node JS and Postgres. Finally I’ll discuss...

In this video I explain the main difference between asynchronous execution, multithreading and multiprocessing programming. There are advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Synchronous 0:30 Multithreading a process have many threads shared resources 3:20 Async io single thread 6:00 Multiprocessing  11:00 Threads are evil https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf sync...

In this video I explain End to End encryption within the context of WhatsApp. I explain how encryption and TLS works then the problem of having a centerlized server decrypting the traffic, I then talk about how end to end encryption (e2e) can help mitgate that and finally I explain the problems with e2e encryption Classic Encryption Example 1:00 End to end encryption 3:25 Problem with E2E 7:30 - T...

WhatsApp Introduced long time a go Unlimited forwarding then limited Up to 5 times Double forwarded too many times (last year) Double forwarded messages can only be forwarded once or even none Forwarding feature end to end encryption Sent/delivered/read https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/07/whatsapp-limits-message-forwards-to-combat-coronavirus-misinformation.html

In this video, I explain the difference between a proxy and a reverse proxy. This is a refreshed version of the proxy video I made.   What is a Proxy ?  Proxy use cases - Logging - Anonymity - Geofencing  - Caching - Block sites (office)  - Enable Polyglot    What is Reverse Proxy?  Reverse Proxy Example Reverse Proxy Use Cases  - Caching (Varnish)...

In this video I explore what is a distributed transaction but first I explain what is a transaction, then why we invented distributed transactions and finally discuss proposed solutions to implement distributed transactions   Cards 2:40 ACID https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pomxJOFVcQs 7:30 Microservices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-m7ZFxeg1A    Transactions 2:30 Compe...

A very necessary change and good step made by Google Chrome Team to rollback the same site cookie change Blog https://blog.chromium.org/2020/04/temporarily-rolling-back-samesite.html Firefox re-enables https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3TPId35Ec SameSite Cookie Attribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUF2QCEudPo

In this video I explain why we invented bloom filters and where you can use it to make your queries more efficent.

On-Demand TLS is a new feature developed by Caddy Web Server that allows TLS certificate to be generated on the first request, I explain this tech and their pros and cons in this video.

Lazy Loading is a technique where a piece of data is being loaded when needed instead prior. This ensures Fast startup times but can delay requests. In this video I’ll show both Eager loading and the lazy loading with example Node JS

In this podcast I discuss the good, the bad and the ugly about gRPC. No technology is perfect. 

THIS IS MAIN reason gRPC was invented 8:40 -> 16:40 (8 minutes) In this video I discuss the reasoning and all the problems and limitations that lead to the invention of gRPC.