HeyJaredThe 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.
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Engineers will be out of the 'Loops' (opens the original)
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I discuss loops engineering and how it will numb creative thinking and critical system design for engineers.
SQL was a mistake (opens the original)
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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 (opens the original)
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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 (opens the original)
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How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face
How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll (opens the original)
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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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