The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser - podcast cover

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Hussein Nasser•database.husseinnasser.com
Technology
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
Last refreshed: ⓘ
Follow this podcast in the Metacast mobile app to refresh it and see new episodes.
Follow on
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
RSS
YouTube
Overcast
Pocket Casts
Episodes.fm
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

Episode 25 - Cash in on your passion

This episode is pulled from my vlog right after I finished Gary vee book Crush it. Today I finished @garyvee book Crush it (Cash in on Your Passion). I read alot of books but dont necessary review them in my SM. However this book is different, though written 9 years ago and some technologies are dead but that in itself shows this guy jumps on bleeding edge technologies like there is no tomorrow which I love. Never mind, that book actually inspired me to twist Gary’s ideas in the software enginee...

Feb 06, 2018•8 min

Episode 24 - Bleeding Edge Technologies

New technologies appear every day. We ask the question should software engineers learn new emerging technologies as soon as they come in? We answer yes and We bring in badass Gary vee as a successful example of someone who tackle any new social media app.

Feb 01, 2018•5 min

Episode 23 - Why JSON is so Popular?

We discuss how JSON became popular. It isn’t some fashion trend, its convenience. We also discuss how XML was invented as an interchange format.

Jan 31, 2018•5 min

Episode 22 - Latency

Discussion of latency across the entire software stack. Enjoy

Jan 29, 2018•5 min

Episode 21 - RDBMS

We discuss relational databases. Their properties and scalability.

Jan 26, 2018•13 min

Episode 18 - Memory Leaks

We discuss memory leaks. What are they? How they happen? How dangerous can they be?

Jan 24, 2018•5 min

Episode 17 - UX ... then REST

We discuss how an engineer can save tremendous design and architecture efforts at the backend building the REST services by actually starting with the user experience. As usual with an example. Cheers y’all

Jan 23, 2018•5 min

Episode 15 - I Wrote Bad Front-End Code

While building an Alien Invasion javascript game I wrote some bad code that froze my chrome. I discuss the unscalable piece of code and go through how I discovered it and how to fix it.

Jan 19, 2018•7 min

Episode 14 - Learn Software By Doing

With new technologies it becomes overwhelming for engineers to learn. We discuss one of the best ways to learn the new technologies by doing projects using them. Step out of your comfort zone and build apps using those tech!

Jan 19, 2018•6 min

Episode 13 - Do Developers Make Lousy UX?

In this episode we discuss why lot of people think Developers make unusable and lousy user experiences and interfaces. We take examples of Windows vs Mac and a throw back from a blog post I wrote 10 years ago. Enjoy

Jan 18, 2018•10 min

Episode 11 - Persistence

We discuss how persistence at the client side. We bring Siri, Whatsapp and Twitter s examples of dealing with persistence of draft, lost and unsent messages .

Jan 13, 2018•13 min

Episode 10 - Scalable Software

We discuss software scaling in three tiers. The front end, the backend and the middle. We take instagram as an example for all three tiers.

Jan 12, 2018•15 min

Episode 08 - UX and Software Architecture

Does the user experience derive the software architecture or vise versa? Can user experience help determine what backend database you end up using? We discuss both styles of engineering and talk about pros and cons. Enjoy

Jan 05, 2018•11 min

Episode 02 - Stuck at your job?

In this episode we discuss how can you make a change to your career. I also talk about my experience a little. Enjoy

Jan 02, 2018•10 min

Episode 01 - Sync vs aSync

We discuss two programming styles both have their advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy

Dec 29, 2017•15 min
← Prev
Hosted on Spotify for Creators (Anchor)
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android