Episode 139 - How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals)

Episode 139 - How to Become a Good Backend En...

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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 ...  Show more

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 ...  Show more

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