Hussein Nasser

How HTTP/2 Works Performance Pros & Cons and More

How HTTPS Work?

How I Got Slightly Better at Communicating my Ideas Effectively as a Software Engineer

How I deal with Stress and being Overwhelmed as a Software Engineer

How Important are Algorithms and Data Structures in Backend Engineering?

How IndexedDB Works?

How Instagram content is served through GraphQL - Devtooling Instagram

How Man-In-The-Middle Attacks Works #shorts

How Network Sniffing Works #shorts

How Postgres VACUUM can Speed up Queries #shorts

How Reddit Delivers Dynamic Content through Varnish Cache Reverse Proxy - Devtooling Reddit

How Redis efficiently snapshots gigabytes of memory to disk (forking)

How SSH password-less key based authentication work in 4 minutes (with example)

How TikTok short content is delivered through HTTP - Devtooling TikTok

How Tor Works? (The Onion Router)

How Un-deletable Zombie Cookies work (with implementation example)

How WebSockets Work with HTTP/2 (RFC8441 Explained)

How YouTube Efficiently Streams Videos through HTTP? - DevTooling YouTube

How an HTTP Proxy works and How to Build one? (Node JS)

How do Browsers Force HTTPS with HSTS and How it can prevent SSL Stripping?

How do i learn new tech as a software engineer

How does NodeJS HTTP Server Looks Like in Wireshark?

How much bandwidth do you really need? (Web browsing streaming and gaming)

How much can you learn about the Backend from its API?

How public WIFI can be sniffed?

How the Twitter Hack really happened? How they got caught and can Homomorphic Encryption help?

How timeouts can make or break your Backend load balancers

How to Become a Good Backend Engineer (Fundamentals)

How to Overcome Procrastination as a Software Engineer

How to Run a Tech YouTube Channel and Enjoy it Without Burning out

How to become a Better Software Engineer?

Hub vs Switch vs Bridge vs Router (Full Detailed Example)

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Crash Course - HTTP 1.0 1.1 HTTP/2 HTTP/3

I Wrote Bad Front-End Code That Broke Chrome

I ask this question to every Backend Engineer I interview

I can’t believe how smart this is! He Hacked Into Apple and Microsoft with this genius trick.

I finished Researching Envoy Proxy here is what I think Let us Discuss

I got served an Instagram Ad after browsing this website? Let us discuss how that’s possible

I like this Backend | DevTooling Netflix

I made a mistake

I should start using mySQL more

I started Researching WebRTC and…..

I wish I can change the name of this book

I'm in love with these new Javascript features - Javascript Optional Chaining and nullish coalescing

IGeometry 2016 Retrospective - Channel Update

IGeometry new plan in preparation for 2018

Idempotent Requests in Microservices (Minute Engineering)

Identify good software documentation from bad ones

Identifying backend connection latencies with chrome devtools

If I wasn’t a Backend Engineer I would pick this as my career - Q&A April 2021

If you are using Let’s Encrypt Watch out for this (September 30 2021)

If you feel inspired act on it. DON'T WASTE IT

Implementing Offline/Online Status of a Chatting Backend System #shorts

Impostor syndrome and Staying Motivated - The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser - Q&A

IndexedDB Crash Course with Javascript

Indexing Woes Secret to Backend Interviews Math and Software - The Backend Engineering Show

<a target='_blank' href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9n-oLrbM'>Indexing in PostgreSQL vs MySQL

Inefficient Code in Chrome puts ENORMOUS load on DNS Roots Just for a pretty UX let us discuss...

<a target='_blank' href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCPyXSIm8'>Installing This Twilio Malware NPM Package Opens a Backdoor on Your Developer Machine

Is Coding Easy? #softwaretalk

Is EventStoreDB the First Native gRPC Database?

Is FireFox HTTPS only Mode The death of HSTS?

Is MultiProcessing over a Single TCP Connection a Good Idea?

Is SELECT * Expensive?

Is ULTRARAM a game changer? | The Backend Engineering Show

Is YAGNI (You aren’t gonna need it) Still Relevant in Backend Engineering System Design?

Is there a Limit to Number of Connections a Backend can handle?

Is this the end of WebSockets? - The New WebTransport Protocol

It’s always Microservices - The Spotify Outage Explained (March 8 2022)

I’m Trying to Get better at VIM

JWT - JSON Web Token Crash Course (NodeJS & Postgres)

Javascript By Example L1E01 - Getting Started

Javascript By Example L1E02 - Building the Calculator Interface

Javascript By Example L1E03 - Displaying the Digits on Calculator Screen

Javascript By Example L1E04 - Operators All Clear with Arrow Functions

Javascript By Example L1E05 - Evaluate the Calculator Expressions with eval

Javascript By Example L1E06 - Fix Leading Zero Bug with Conditions

Javascript By Example L1E07 - Running our Calculator on the Mobile Phone

Javascript By Example L1E08 - CSS Arrays and Loops

Javascript By Example L1E09 - Code simplification and debugging

Javascript By Example L2E00 - Building Space invaders from scratch

Javascript By Example L2E01 - Canvas

Javascript By Example L2E02 - Blurred

Javascript Destructuring assignment

Javascript Essentials Crash Course for Absolute Beginners (All you need is a browser nothing else)

Javascript Promises and async/await Tutorial

Javascript and Mongodb Tutorial with Mongodb NodeJS Driver

Javascript by Example - The Vook

Kafka Consumer Group is a Brilliant Design Choice and We should Discuss it

Keep your Servers Close and Your Database Closer

KeepAlive | The Backend Engineering Show

Layer 4 vs Layer 7 Proxying In Details Explained with Examples

Lazy Loading Images with NO SCRIPTS! (HTML only)

Lazy Loading vs Eager Loading with Node JS & Express

Lazy load Images with Javascript

Learn By Doing.

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 01 - Getting Started

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 02 - Classes and Objects (Part 1)

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 03 - Classes and Objects (Part 2)

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 04 - User Interface

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 05 - By Value v. By Reference

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 06 - Variable size 32 bit vs 64 bit

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 07 - Conditional Statements

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 08 - Inheritance

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 09 - Strategy Design Pattern

Learn Programming with VB.NET - 10 - How did I learn programming

Learning at Home Consistent Hashing Empathy with Engineers and More - Software Chat

Let us discuss the Linux Kernel community and University of Minnesota situation

Load Balance multiple RTMP Servers to Horizontally Scale Streaming (Node Media Server and HAProxy)

Load Balancer vs Reverse Proxy (Explained by Example)

Load Balancing Server-Sent Events (SSE) Backends with Round Robin

Load Balancing Tutorial with Python and Nginx

Load Balancing in HTTP/2 Explained

Load balancing in Layer 4 vs Layer 7 with HAPROXY Examples

Log4DoS - New Denial of Service discovered in log4j | The Backend Engineering Show

Long Polling and how it differs from Push Poll and SSE - The Backend Engineering Show

MAC Address Instead of IP Address? Explained in 60 seconds #shortshussein

MIME and Media Type sniffing explained and the type of attacks it leads to

Making TLS Handshake more Secure - The New Encrypted Client Hello TLS Extension (ECH)

MariaDB vs MySQL SSD NVMe vs SATA Performance - Discussions on the Percona Benchmark

Meet mySQL RAPID - distributed in-memory columnar query processing engine by ORACLE

Microservices Explained and their Pros & Cons

Microsoft 365 Outage What Happened and What Caused it? Let us discuss

Microsoft Awards them $20k for finding one of a kind XSS bug in Edge

Microsoft IIS as a Backend - CPU Throttling in the Application Pool

Microsoft IIS as a Backend - HTTP/HTTPS Bindings

Microsoft Just Had its Third Major Outage ( April-1st-2021 )

MongoDB and ElasticSearch Clusters WIPED! The Meow attack and how Backend Engineers can prevent it

Multi-player System Game Design - Pros & Cons of Proposed Designs & System Design Interviews Advice

Multi-tenancy architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

Multicast DNS Explained

My New Course Learn Coding by Example with C#

My New GIS Book 2018 Just published on Kindle - Learn GIS Programming

My Opinion on the “Stop Using React” Article

<a target='_blank' href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NsWnT-FoE'>My Preferred Method of Learning Backend Engineering Technologies

My Process of Designing and Architecting Software

My Story

My Struggle with the English Language in the US as an Arab Native Speaker and a Software Engineer

My Table has lots of Indexes and I am worried it Will slow down my Inserts

My Thoughts on The Twitter “Hack”

My Thoughts on the Clever and Dangerous SolarWinds Hack

My Thoughts on the Massive VPN Leak of 1.2 TB User logs

My thoughts on Low/no code | Backend Engineering Show

My thoughts on the ALPACA Attack (Detailed analysis)

My thoughts on the CAP theorem

My website went down (enom outage analysis)

NAT Slipstreaming Vulnerability Explained

NEW GENIUS DNS Cache Poisoning Attack - SAD DNS Explained

Network Address Translation - NAT Explained

New Book Alert - The ! Empathetic Engineer: A short story portraying the software engineer archetype

New Udemy Course - Fundamentals of Networking for Effective Backends

No Excuses

No You Don’t have to Encrypt Passwords before sending POST requests and here is why

Node JS fixes an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability

NodeJS introduces HTTPS Import from URLs

Nodejs Express Hello World

North Korean Hackers Hide Malicious Code within BMP image Goes Undetected by AntiVirus software

Oblivious DoH (oDOH) Introduces a TLS Terminating Proxy with additional Layer of Encryption

On Graph Databases | The Backend Engineering Show

One Line of Code can open you for a MITM attack Let us Discuss

One regular expression can crash NodeJS

Opening Old Wounds - Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

Optimizing Communication and Networking in Database Systems - The Backend Engineering Show

Overengineering in Software

PHP’s Git Server hacked - Two Remote Code executions added to the source code let us discuss

Partial Indexing | The Backend Engineering Show

Percentile Tail Latency Explained (95% 99%) Monitor Backend performance with this metric

Perfect Forward Secrecy in TLS Explained

Persistent Connections (Pros and Cons)

Pessimistic concurrency control vs Optimistic concurrency control in Database Systems Explained

Phantom Read Phenomena - (Explained by Example)

Podcast - Long polling

Popup Modal Dialog with Javascript and HTML

Port forwarding with DNAT and Iptables

Port forwarding with NAT and iptables (transparent proxying) - “Run” your webapp on port 80

Portainer - Lightweight Management UI for Docker

PostgreSQL 12 Top Features Explained

PostgreSQL 13 Has Some Performance Boosts! Let us discuss it!

Postgres Instances hacked and used to mine crypto - Let us discuss how is that possible

Postgres index bloat | The Backend Engineering Show

Postgres on Apple M1 Nigle’s Algorithm in 2020 QUIC DNS & More - The Backend Engineering Show Live

Product Architect vs Solutions Architect #softwaretalk

Programmatically Open External Ports with UPNP

Protocol Buffers Crash Course

Proxy vs Reverse Proxy Server Explained

Proxy vs. Reverse Proxy (Explained by Example)

Public IP vs. Private IP and Port Forwarding (Explained by Example)

Publish-Subscribe Architecture (Explained by Example)

Publish-Subscribe Pattern vs Message Queues vs Request Response (Detailed Discussions with Examples)

Publish/Subscribe Backend Systems Explained In 60 Seconds #shortshussein

Python and MySQL Tutorial

Python on the Backend (Announcing my new Python Online Course)

QUIC is FINALLY a Standard. RIP TCP?

Question Everything in Software Engineering

REST API Pros and Cons (Explained by Example)

REST API has a major limitation and Vulcain solves it Let us discuss

<a target='_blank' href='https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ok2sGWb-ho'>RFC 6455 - The WebSocket Protocol #shorts #minuteengineering

RFC 6824 - Multipath TCP #minuteengineering #shorts

RFC 9000 - QUIC #minuteengineering #quic

RabbitMQ Crash Course

Redis In-Memory Database Crash Course

Redis Networking Transport Protocol

Relational Database Atomicity Explained By Example

Remote Code Execution bug found in Popular Node.js changelog library (I go through the code)

Replication and Clustering in Redis

Researcher bypasses Azure and Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Security - HTTP/2 Smuggling (h2c)

Resource vs Query String Parameters (Explained by Example)

Reverse Engineering Instagram feed

Reverse Engineering Twitter

Reverse Engineering YouTube - Video Streaming

Reverse Engineering YouTube Watch Page

Reverse engineering Instagram (UX)

Reverse engineering Instagram in flight mode

Row-Level Database Locks Explained - (Read vs Exclusive)

Run Postgres MySQL and MongoDB in under 60 seconds with docker #shorts

Russia Follows in China’s footsteps and attempts to block TLS 1.3 ESNI DoH & DoT let us discuss

S3 compliant MinIO Suffers a Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability lets discuss

SELECT COUNT(*) is Slow Estimate it Instead (with Example in Node JS and Postgres)

SNI Limitation and Invention of ESNI

SRE changes HAProxy config Breaks the Backend and troubleshoots it like a champ - lets discuss

SSH Tunneling - Local & Remote Port Forwarding (by Example)

SSH into Backend Servers without Publicly Exposing Them - SSH Connection Routing with HAProxy

SSH wormable written in Bash updates itself and hard to detect. The DarkRadiation ☢️ Ransomware

SSL Striping | The Backend Engineering Show

SSL/TLS Termination TLS Forward Proxy Pros and Cons

SYN Flood Attack Explained

SameSite By Default Cookie Breaking Change is Coming Back Mid July 2020

SameSite Cookie Attribute Explained by Example (Strict Lax None & No SameSite)

Scaling CPU-intensive Backends - The Backend Engineering Show

Scaling Websockets with Redis HAProxy and Node JS - High-availability Group Chat Application

Scaling and Securing WebSockets with HAProxy

Securing Backend Applications (OWASP recommendations)

See you in the Esri Dev Summit 2018! (Mar-6 till Mar-9)

Serialization vs de-serialization #shorts

Server Name Indication (SNI) (Explained by Example)

Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS Extension Explained

Server-Sent Events Crash Course

Setup Active-Passive Cluster with Keepalived & HAProxy (Two raspberry pis)

Severe Prototype Pollution Vulnerability found in gRPC Node JS codebase

Should NodeJS support HTTP/3?

Should RabbitMQ Implement QUIC Protocol for their Channels Message Queue?

Should Software Engineers Learn Bleeding-Edge Technologies?

Should you become a Full Stack Engineer?

Should you go with an Optimistic or Pessimistic Concurrency Control Database?

Show Your Work. Blog Vlog Write Create and Develop!

Show your Backend Engineering Skills To Recruiters - Building a Full Backend Portfolio

Sidecar Proxy Pros & Cons (Explained by Example)

Simple Object Access Protocol Pros and Cons (Explained by Example)

Slack's Migrating Millions of Websockets from HAProxy to Envoy lets discuss

Software Engineering is Overwhelming

Software Troubleshooting is an Art here is why

Software vs. Hardware AdBlockers (Explained by Example)

Spectre Explained - The Attack that took the world by surprise in 2018

Spin up Kafka Broker and Zookeeper on Docker

Spin up RabbitMQ on Docker

Spin up Redis on Docker and learn basic commands

Spin up a Postgres Instance & PGADMIN with Docker

Spin up a lightweight Nodejs docker container running your application

Spin up an Nginx Docker Container as a Load Balancer

Spinning MongoDB MongoShell and Mongo GUI with Docker

Spinning MySQL Database with Docker

Spinning a lightweight Postgres instance and Consume it with NodeJS

Spinning a lightweight RabbitMQ instance and Consume it with NodeJS

Spinning multiple Postgres instances and PGAdmin with Docker

Spook.js - This will bloat Chrome even more | The Backend Engineering Show

Spotify Web is bloated - Devtooling Spotify

Sql Injection Explained by Example with Express and PostgreSQL

Starting a Software Engineering YouTube Channel? This might help

Stateful vs Stateless Applications (Explained by Example)

Stateless v. Stateful Architecture (Podcast)

Stateless vs Stateful Protocols (HTTP vs TCP)

Step by Step Basic Microservices System (3 NodeJS + 1 Load Balancer containers) with Docker Compose

Step by Step JavaScript modules (.mjs) Tutorial

Step by Step Javascript Classes Tutorial - PART 2👾☠️🤖

Step by Step Javascript Classes Tutorial 👾☠️🤖

Step by Step Javascript and Postgres Tutorial using node-postgres

Step by Step Mysql 8.x and Javascript Tutorial (with mysql2 NodeJs)

Step by Step Sidecar Pattern Tutorial

Step-by-Step Python and Postgres Tutorial with psycopg2

Symmetrical vs asymmetrical Encryption Pros and Cons by Example

Synchronous and asynchronous workloads are everywhere

Synchronous v. Asynchronous

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Applications (Explained by Example)

Synchronous vs Asynchronous Clients (TikTok vs Instagram Example)

System Design in Software Engineering Is An Art

TCP Half-Open Explained

TCP Tunneling Applications Pros and Cons (Explained by Example)

TCP in 60 Seconds - Transmission Control Protocol #shorts

TCP vs UDP Crash Course

TCP/IP turns 40 | The Backend Engineering Show

TLS - Live Stream (by Hussein Nasser)

TLS 1.1 is Dead … Well Almost! thanks to Chrome 84 - (Deep Dive Analysis)

TLS 1.2 vs TLS 1.3 #shorts

TLS Certificates Types - Extended Validation Certificate vs Domain Validated Certificate

TLS Passthrough Explained

TLS and HTTPS Options in Microsoft IIS

TLS/SSL Certificate Pinning Explained

Table Clustering in MySQL and Postgres - The pros and cons

Tech I want to explore in 2022

Tech Support Scammers are actually Smart Engineers Annoying but Smart

Technical Discussion on VPNs - How VPNs Work their benefits and What happens when VPNs are Hacked

The 2020 Google Outage (Detailed Analysis)

The 2021 Slack Outage - Detailed analysis of what happened to Slack on Jan 4th 2021

The ALPACA Attack explained #shorts

The Anatomy of a Proxy Server | The Backend Engineering Show

The Auth0 Outage 4/20/2021 (Early report)

The Backend Engineering Podcast by Hussein Nasser

The Backend of this Fintech Exposed Users' Personal Information - The Klarna Leak (Full Report)

The Bare-Bones of a Service Mesh Proxy

The Barebones of Distributed Systems

The Beauty of the Internet Protocol

The Benefits of the 3-Tier Architecture (e.g. REST API)

The Biggest Flaw of HTTP 1.0 in 60 Seconds #shortshussein

The Cloudflare Outage - What Happened? And my Thoughts

The Complete Guide to WebSockets

The Google Outage ( Early report )

The Huge Flaw HTTP 1.0 Had...

The IPFS Protocol Explained with Examples - Welcome to the Decentralized Web

The Journey of an HTTP request to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show

The Lifecycle of an HTTP Request in NodeJS

The Log4j vulnerability | The Backend Engineering Show

The Many Ways of DDoS | Russia-Ukraine Cyberwar

The New Postgres 14 Looks Promising - The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

The OSI Model - Explained by Example

The OSI Model by Example - The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

The Road to QUIC - what’s wrong w/ HTTP/1.1 HTTP/2 HTTP Pipelining CRIME HTTP/2 HOL HPACK

<a target='_blank' href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUsEDNyIGQ'>The Second Microsoft Global Outage in less than 6 months (preliminary report) - let us discuss

The Slack 2/22/22 Outage (Summary)

The Slack Outage (Early Report & Speculations)

The TLS Handshake Explained with Example (the Math)

The Tale of OLTP OLAP and HTAP in Data Warehousing - The Backend Engineering Show

The basic components of RabbitMQ

The cost of Hash Tables | The Backend Engineering Show

The cost rolling back transactions (postgres/mysql)

The evolution from virtual machines to containers

The good the bad & the ugly of WebSockets

The limitations of today’s SSDs | The Backend Engineering Show

The problem with error management in GraphQL

There is more to node http server listen