The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

522 Episodes

1. Write Amplification Explained in Backend Apps, Database Systems and SSDs

   Published: 5/04/2021
2. DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services on April’s fool day (with Bonus content)

   Published: 4/04/2021
3. My Python CRUD App hits 2 million rows, Should I Shard my Database?

   Published: 3/04/2021
4. cURL TLS 1.3 session ticket proxy host mixup Vulnerability

   Published: 31/03/2021
5. PHP’s Source Code hacked - Two Remote Code execution added to the Git server, let us discuss

   Published: 31/03/2021
6. What happens when your Web Server Private Key is Leaked?

   Published: 28/03/2021
7. Researcher bypasses Azure, and Cloudflare Reverse Proxy Security - HTTP/2 Smuggling (h2c)

   Published: 26/03/2021
8. High severity flaw can crash your WebServer when using OpenSSL - Let us discuss

   Published: 26/03/2021
9. When is NodeJS Single Threaded and when is it multi-Threaded?

   Published: 24/03/2021
10. Slack's Migrating Millions of Websockets from HAProxy to Envoy, let's discuss

    Published: 21/03/2021
11. Why WebSockets over HTTP/2 (RFC8441) is Critical for Effective Load Balancing and Backend Scaling

    Published: 21/03/2021
12. How HTTP Compression Leaks Sessions and JWT - CRIME Explained and how HPACK in HTTP/2 fixes this

    Published: 19/03/2021
13. The Second Microsoft Global Outage in less than 6 months

    Published: 16/03/2021
14. Is there a Limit to Number of Connections a Backend can handle?

    Published: 16/03/2021
15. Fire Destroys Datacenter in France, Let us discuss the OVHcloud Fire

    Published: 11/03/2021
16. Firefox State Partitioning for Cookies Might End Evil Tracking forever

    Published: 10/03/2021
17. Did you get logged out of GitHub? - Backend Race condition Bug discussion

    Published: 10/03/2021
18. Chrome 90 will start communicating in HTTPS (port 443) by Default - Let us discuss

    Published: 4/03/2021
19. S3 compliant MinIO Suffers an Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability, lets discuss

    Published: 1/03/2021
20. Which DBMS will Implement QUIC First? Can the QUIC Protocol improve Database Performance in Web Applications?

    Published: 25/02/2021