The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Attribute Rules are scripts that can be authored and placed in the geodatabase to ensure data integrity lets discuss them. 

In this episode we will talk about the difference between public ip and private ip address and casually talk about routers, modems, LAN,  WAN and port forwarding. 

Join me in the upcoming Esri dev summit! Ill be presenting attribute rules and the utility network.

It is a long weekend with the president day on Monday. Which means it is another good opportunity to create more art. Whether that is a new ArcGIS pro Add-in or a new map, a painting, a new piece of poetry or music. This also means more chances to get discovered, which means more chances to get criticized. I get criticized all the time now that I have bigger exposure and this is our topic for this...

This is originally a video that I converted into a podcast I think it is still useful  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D1NAezC-Dk Notifications have become part of our daily life. We receive them almost every minute on our phones, tablets, and computers. As software engineers, it is good to understand how notifications work, and what different type of notifications there are (push and pull notifi...

Soap (Simple Object Access Protocol) has been a popular messaging protocol in the early 2000s. It uses XML as a format with well defined schema, and your choice of stransport protocol. Despite it still being used people have been moving towards #REST architecture and more so #gRPC recently. In this episode we discuss why people moved from #SOAP and what are the advantages and disadvantages of SOAP...

In this episode we answer a question from Anthony. How do you know when to focus on building a geodatabase (let's say SQL server database) rather than just let the data sit in the shapefile? I would say if you are planning to have multiple users accessing and editing the data, also if your data grew too large shape files might not be scalable to read. Also if you are planning to use the capabiliti...

When you publish a service you can specify how many processes (min / max) your service can use. As requests are being served memory is allocated, state is changed, some processes could go corrupt Recycling is the process destroying and re-spawning processes that are running to maintain a good memory footprint.  Here is a good read on recycling http://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/server/latest/publish-...

 I don’t have the equipments. There are people doing that already. And my personal favorite, I don’t know enough.  Excuses are always there, In this podcast I talk about my personal story of how I got started. You don't need fancy equipments to share your skills and knowledge. In this podcast we discuss how with just a screen sharing app (Quicktime) and this microphone I was able to grow...

A podcast about the difference between a layer and its data source. Enjoy!

Vikrant asked a question on Linked:  Dear Hussein, I want to learn programming for GIS. Is python useful? I am not very good in programming. Kindly guide. And thanks for the posts.. Programming for GIS really depends on what you are trying to do and how do you want to advance your career. In this podcast we will discuss four kind of areas where you can programming for GIS. GIS Admin Programmi...

If you ever go a website and there some images you liked to reference in your page or blog. You would copy the link, and put in your blog.  Only to find out that the image looks broken?  You copy the link again and paste it in URL and it opens fine?  This is an effect of CORS or cross origin resource sharing.  https://husseinnasser.com/courses

 ArcGIS Server is a technology that allows you to pull your heavy work load on the backend and isolate the clients from complexity of the database by exposing HTTP services instead of low level TCP database. You can also extend the server capability by writing your own extensions.  In this episode ArcGIS Server talk we will talk about two ways you can extend your ArcGIS server, Server Ob...

Any content served through HTTP “should” include meta data about its type. This is so the browser/client knows what to do with the content it receives. For example, if the content type header is an image the browser will preview it, if it is HTML it will render the markup and execute any javascript code. Content type however is optional and web masters sometimes don’t set it, which leave the brows...

Thank you so much guys for a great year! I love you. -Hussein 2018 was a great year:    Created, edited and posted 120 software engineering youtube videos with over 1.1 Million impressions   Published 75 podcasts with over 8k plays    Self Published a new GIS book   Published two programming online courses   #hustle

This is the final episode of 2018. We will discuss the difference between Availability vs Scalability in software services. Availability What does it mean for my software to be available?  software, service, application is designed in way so it can be available to consumers despite situation  Will your service be available if Host Failure Maintenance  Upgrading Security updates Available doesn’t n...

In this episode we discuss the concept of subtypes in the geodatabase, subtype layers and much more!

In this episode we discuss the difference between authentication and authorization.

Hussein's Courses 📐⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/courses Hussein's Books 📒⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/books In this episode of #softwaretalk I'm in beautiful San Francisco for the weekend. Our topic today is database locks. Stay Awesome! Hussein

In this episode we discuss the ArcGIS scripting language Arcade. New to GIS? Checkout my books and courses here https://husseinnasser.com/books

We discuss the difference between short and long transactions in the geodatabase

We discuss consistency in this episode

In this episode I talk about how the feature service came to be. From local shape files through the enterprise geodatabase to the beautiful HTTP protocol services. Https://husseinnasser.com

Hussein's Courses 📐⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/courses Hussein's Books 📒⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/books I don’t usually do rants. f you are new software developer, pick a language and write software. There is no best programming language. Each programming language has its own of pros and cons. Stay Awesome -Hussein

In this episode I explain the backend development, its history, how it came into existence and where it is going. I also share with you my latest online course Python on the Backend. http://www.husseinnasser.com/courses