The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nas...

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Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'

I discuss loops engineering and how it will numb creative thinking and critical system design for engineers. 

SQL was a mistake

I like SQL but the standard should have included ways to hint instead of the abstraction of "let me do it for you" 

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 ...  Show more