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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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Episodes

Episode 83 - Q&A: Programming for GIS

Vikrant asked a question on Linked: Dear Hussein, I want to learn programming for GIS. Is python useful? I am not very good in programming. Kindly guide. And thanks for the posts.. Programming for GIS really depends on what you are trying to do and how do you want to advance your career. In this podcast we will discuss four kind of areas where you can programming for GIS. GIS Admin Programming GIS Desktop Programming GIS Web Programming GIS Server Programming Enjoy...

Jan 27, 201927 min

Episode 82 - Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

If you ever go a website and there some images you liked to reference in your page or blog. You would copy the link, and put in your blog. Only to find out that the image looks broken? You copy the link again and paste it in URL and it opens fine? This is an effect of CORS or cross origin resource sharing. https://husseinnasser.com/courses

Jan 19, 201914 min

Episode 81 - ArcGIS Server Talk - SOE vs SOI

ArcGIS Server is a technology that allows you to pull your heavy work load on the backend and isolate the clients from complexity of the database by exposing HTTP services instead of low level TCP database. You can also extend the server capability by writing your own extensions. In this episode ArcGIS Server talk we will talk about two ways you can extend your ArcGIS server, Server Object Extensions and Server Object Interceptors. Server Object Extension Extends the MapServer to allow you to wr...

Jan 06, 201918 min

Episode 80 - MIME Sniffing

Any content served through HTTP “should” include meta data about its type. This is so the browser/client knows what to do with the content it receives. For example, if the content type header is an image the browser will preview it, if it is HTML it will render the markup and execute any javascript code. Content type however is optional and web masters sometimes don’t set it, which leave the browsers wondering about the content type it is consuming. So browsers had to implement parsing and “snif...

Jan 04, 201911 min

2018 was a great year

Thank you so much guys for a great year! I love you. -Hussein 2018 was a great year: Created, edited and posted 120 software engineering youtube videos with over 1.1 Million impressions Published 75 podcasts with over 8k plays Self Published a new GIS book Published two programming online courses #hustle

Dec 31, 20182 min

Episode 79 - Availability vs Scalability

This is the final episode of 2018. We will discuss the difference between Availability vs Scalability in software services. Availability What does it mean for my software to be available? software, service, application is designed in way so it can be available to consumers despite situation Will your service be available if Host Failure Maintenance Upgrading Security updates Available doesn’t necessarily mean performant. Scalability What does it mean for my software to be scalable? The ability f...

Dec 31, 201820 min

Episode 76 - Database Locks

Hussein's Courses 📐⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/courses Hussein's Books 📒⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/books In this episode of #softwaretalk I'm in beautiful San Francisco for the weekend. Our topic today is database locks. Stay Awesome! Hussein

Dec 16, 20186 min

Episode 72 - The Evolution of the Feature Service

In this episode I talk about how the feature service came to be. From local shape files through the enterprise geodatabase to the beautiful HTTP protocol services. Https://husseinnasser.com

Dec 06, 201817 min

Episode 71 - Best Programming Language for 2019 (Rant)

Hussein's Courses 📐⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/courses Hussein's Books 📒⟶ https://www.husseinnasser.com/books I don’t usually do rants. f you are new software developer, pick a language and write software. There is no best programming language. Each programming language has its own of pros and cons. Stay Awesome -Hussein

Dec 05, 20188 min

Episode 70 - What is Back-end Development ?

In this episode I explain the backend development, its history, how it came into existence and where it is going. I also share with you my latest online course Python on the Backend. http://www.husseinnasser.com/courses

Nov 26, 20188 min

Episode 69 - The Beauty of HTTP

We discuss the HTTP protocol and explain its elegance and how it is powering the microservices architecture.

Nov 24, 20186 min

Episode 68 - Geodatabase Talk - ObjectID

Hussein's Courses 📐⟶ www.husseinnasser.com/courses Hussein's Books 📒⟶ www.husseinnasser.com/books ObjectId (among others) is a system field that is added to a geodatabase table. In this episode we discuss best practices in coding against this field. Checkout my new book (learn gis programming with ArcGIS online and Javascript 4.9 API) ! www.husseinnasser.com

Nov 19, 201812 min

Episode 63 - Geodatabase Talk - SDE Intercepts

Sde intercept Any operation performed on ArcGIS ends up eventually to the geodatabase as a set of one or more queries. A “zoom-in” or pan operation translates to multiple queries to the underlying geodatabase. SDE intercepts always you to intercept and take a look at those queries to diagnose slow operations in your enterprise geodatabase. It also helps pinpoint where the bottle neck is and how can you optimize your app or geodatabase. https://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/000010355

Nov 11, 201812 min

Episode 62 - Load Balancer vs Reverse Proxy

Most of the time a Load balancer is a reverse proxy but a reverse proxy is not necessary a load balancer. Reverse proxy takes a request from client and forward it to “a server” doesn’t care of the server is overloaded or down or not just forwards it. Load balancer stores state about each server behind it, how overloaded each server is, and what server is down, and smartly forward request to a server to balance the load across all the group. So a load balancer is a special case of a reverse proxy...

Nov 05, 201810 min

Episode 58 - The Art of Software Troubleshooting

In this episode of #softwaretalk we discuss the art of software troubleshooting. We can become better software engineers by aiming to excel at our craft. Not just find a bug, but track its cause. Not just find a bad performing workflow in the app but find out what causes the performance bottleneck. Do the due diligence. Enjoy this episode guys www.husseinnasser.com

Oct 20, 201813 min

Episode 57 - ArcGIS Server Talk - ApplyEdits

In this episode, we talk about applyEdits method on the feature service REST API. Enjoy Grab my Administering ArcGIS for Server book and learn more about Installing and configuring ArcGIS for Server to publish, optimize, and secure GIS services. http://husseinnasser.com/books

Oct 19, 201810 min
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