The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

545 episodes

Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'
2026/09/25 | 12 mins.
I discuss loops engineering and how it will numb creative thinking and critical system design for engineers.
SQL was a mistake
2026/09/18 | 12 mins.
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
2026/09/11 | 15 mins.
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
2026/08/23 | 17 mins.
How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll
2026/07/10 | 21 mins.
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 Classic Paged results 6:23 Limitations of paging9:00 The scroll interface 12:00 How TikTok to infinite scroll 14:00 The current state

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About The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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

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