Hussein Nasser Courses

Mutual TLS - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore Mutual TLS: encryption, authentication, advantages, and challenges in client-server communication. Gain insights into secure network protocols for backend development.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Redo, Undo and WAL Logs - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore database logging techniques including WAL, checkpointing, and undo logs to ensure data durability and recovery in backend systems.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Lifecycle of an HTTP Request in NodeJS

Explore the lifecycle of HTTP requests in NodeJS, covering request objects, chaining, response handling, and Express middleware implementation for efficient backend development.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

DNS Is Beautiful

Explore DNS's brilliant design, scalability, and security challenges. Learn how it works, its pros and cons, and lessons for app development in this comprehensive overview.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Cost of Hash Tables - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore hash tables' efficiency in caching, database joins, and load balancing, while examining their costs and limitations in various applications and programming languages.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

What Does It Take to Break Bitcoin’s Encryption? - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore Bitcoin's encryption, public key cryptography, and security measures. Learn about wallet vulnerabilities, transaction verification, and potential attack vectors in this comprehensive overview.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Database Page Splits - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore database page splits, their impact on query performance, and solutions like reindexing and fill factor. Learn about page structure, read/write operations, and index fragmentation.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

How Instagram Content Is Served Through GraphQL - Devtooling Instagram

Explore Instagram's architecture through dev tools, examining its mix of REST API and GraphQL, with insights on performance, security, and WebSocket usage.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Multi-Tenancy Architecture - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore multi-tenancy architecture across various domains, including storage, databases, networking, virtualization, and applications, to optimize resource sharing while maintaining isolation between tenants.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building an Upload Backend Service With No Libraries, Just Vanilla JS With Progress

Learn to build a simple upload service with vanilla JavaScript, implementing file chunking, progress tracking, and backend handling for efficient file uploads.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

SSL Stripping - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore SSL stripping attacks, their causes, mitigations, and ongoing challenges in web security. Learn about the web security model and potential solutions to this vulnerability.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Backend Engineering Show

Explore TCP and HTTP keepalive mechanisms, their benefits, challenges, and best practices. Learn about middlebox interactions and optimal timeout settings for improved network performance.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Synchronous and Asynchronous Workloads Are Everywhere

Explore synchronous and asynchronous operations across programming, messaging, databases, and operating systems. Learn key differences and applications in various tech domains.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

B-Tree vs B+ Tree in Database Systems

Explore B-tree and B+ tree data structures in database systems, comparing their advantages, limitations, and real-world applications like MongoDB's index implementation challenges.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Long Polling and How It Differs From Push, Poll and SSE - The Backend Engineering Show

Explore backend communication techniques: polling, pushing, long polling, and SSE. Learn their pros, cons, and applications in this comprehensive comparison of real-time data transfer methods.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video