The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nas...

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Caching is a cop-out

In this episode I explore why you should take some time to examine the operation you are caching before doing so. And why caching is a cop-out 

How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face

How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face 

How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll

The infinite scroll in social media as we know it today is despised by all. But it always start as a bad idea. It originated as a result of UI change to relief the backend database from inefficient queries. I explore this in this episode of the backend engineering. 0:00 Intro1:00 ...  Afficher plus

Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0

An aws engineer discovered a 50% regression in postgres throughput while testing the new Linux 7.0 kernel. The cause turns out to be massive TLB and page faults exacerbated by Postgres process-based design. In this backend engineering show episode I dive deep into how this was di ...  Afficher plus

Don't let AI rob you

A discussion about why many engineers still love the struggle, the mistakes, and the process of figuring things out themselves. This is how we grow and get better and stronger. Letting AI do everything (even though it can’t) robs us this feeling..