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  • Developers will be prompters (and that is bad)

    October 22, 2026 · 9 min

    I discuss the state of what will be happening in the coming few years and why I encourage the 3 of you who want to be elite engineers to keep their critical thinking sharp. To pause and think before prompting.

  • AI will not replace elite engineers

    October 15, 2026 · 56 min

    This is a conversation with Rashed Hasan, a PhD Candidate from the University of Nebraska. We chatted about databases, ORMs and how to use AI without losing yourself. Rashed pagehttps://www.mdrashedulhasan.me/homepage

  • Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'

    September 25, 2026 · 13 min

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

  • SQL was a mistake

    September 18, 2026 · 12 min

    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

    September 11, 2026 · 16 min

    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

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    August 23, 2026 · 18 min

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  • How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll

    July 10, 2026 · 21 min

    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…

  • Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0

    June 17, 2026 · 34 min

    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…

  • Don't let AI rob you

    June 8, 2026 · 32 min

    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…

  • New Book: Root cause

    April 15, 2026 · 10 min

    I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause, and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineering. Early in my career, 20 years ago, I built backend and database applications without fully…

  • 5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets

    January 19, 2026 · 46 min

    In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and…

  • Page Tables

    December 15, 2025 · 47 min

    Page tables provide the mapping between virtual memory and physical memory for each process. This means it needs to be as efficient and as fast as possible. I explore the inner workings of page tables in this episode. 0:00 Intro2:00…

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About the show

Welcome to the Backend Engineering Show podcast with your host Hussein Nasser. If you like software engineering you’ve come to the right place. I discuss all sorts of software engineering technologies and news with specific focus on the backend. All opinions are my own. Most of my content in the podcast is an audio version of videos I post on my youtube channel here http://www.youtube.com/c/HusseinNasser-software-engineering Buy me a coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/hnasr 🧑‍🏫 Courses I Teach https://husseinnasser.com/courses