The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

We discuss the HTTP protocol and explain its elegance and how it is powering the microservices architecture.

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Hussein's Courses 📐⟶ www.husseinnasser.com/courses Hussein's Books 📒⟶ www.husseinnasser.com/books ObjectId (among others) is a system field that is added to a geodatabase table. In this episode we discuss best practices in coding against this field. Checkout my new book (learn gis programming with ArcGIS online and Javascript 4.9 API) ! www.husseinnasser.com

In this episode we discuss the difference between the HTTP client pull, server push and the long poll also known as #HTTP ASYNCHRONOUS polling.

As a software engineer, I like to reverse engineer applications and see how it was made. This episode we discuss how YouTube handles audio vs video streaming. When you minimize the app,

Port 6080 is interesting, we talk little bit about it in this episode.

If you go to the geoprocessing service in Manager you might have noticed that there is an option to run asynchronously. In this episode we explain when you might want to do this!

Sde intercept Any operation performed on ArcGIS ends up eventually to the geodatabase as a set of one or more queries. A “zoom-in” or pan operation translates to multiple queries to the underlying geodatabase. SDE intercepts always you to intercept and take a look at those queries to diagnose slow operations in your enterprise geodatabase. It also helps pinpoint where the bottle neck is and how ca...

Most of the time a Load balancer is a reverse proxy but a reverse proxy is not necessary a load balancer. Reverse proxy takes a request from client and forward it to “a server” doesn’t care of the server is overloaded or down or not just forwards it. Load balancer stores state about each server behind it, how overloaded each server is, and what server is down, and smartly forward request to a serv...

We discuss the max heap size property on the arcgis server admin. Enjoy

In this episode of arcgis server talk we discuss the database schema lock option in manager. Advantages and disadvantages of having your service acquire a lock.

We discuss how split work, the split policy on the domain and the split editing model.

In this episode of #softwaretalk we discuss the art of software troubleshooting. We can become better software engineers by aiming to excel at our craft. Not just find a bug, but track its cause. Not just find a bad performing workflow in the app but find out what causes the performance bottleneck. Do the due diligence. Enjoy this episode guys www.husseinnasser.com

In this episode, we talk about applyEdits method on the feature service REST API. Enjoy Grab my Administering ArcGIS for Server book and learn more about Installing and configuring ArcGIS for Server to publish, optimize, and secure GIS services. http://husseinnasser.com/books

In this episode we discuss how using the new ArcGIS Server version management service we can undo edits even after the service goes down!

In software development, introducing a new feature or functionality always introduces bugs specially in a large software. In this episode we discuss should we fix all the bugs that get introduced from a new feature or install the feature and worry about the bugs later? #agile

Throw back me using PHP and apache to build a stateful service.

In this episode of #softwaretalk, we discuss the differences between the software product architect and a solutions architect. We start by defining the difference between a software product and a solution. Then we discuss the responsibilities of product architect vs solution architect. If you are interested to be a solution or product architect or engineer you came to the right place. Cheers Husse...

Archiving is used to store or keep track of state of rows even after they are edited in older state. In this episode we discuss how can you do archiving in the geodatabase.

In this episode of ArcGIS Server Talk we discuss logging.

In this episode we explain the difference between ddl and dml, with respect to the geodatabase

The communication between the client and the enterprise geodatabase is done through the spatial database engine. We explain that layer in this episode.

Any modern software or application that we build must have a backend API (Application Programming Interface) whether design in C++ IMPL Interfaces Or HTTP REST Architecture, and a Front End User Experience to consume this API which could range from a mobile app to a voice device. This is an open discussion, when you as a software engineer want to design a new application, what do you start first?...

We explain how the asynchronous geoprocessing service works in ArcGIS. We also briefly explain the difference between synchronous vs asynchronous request. Enjoy !

There is no secret, no magic potion, no pill or book or a “new” programming language that will make you a better software engineer. To be a better software engineer you have to write more software. Write silly software, write fart software, write stupid software, write bad performant software. Write enough software to give the edge to be better than other software engineers and software developers...