The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

I discuss loops engineering and how it will numb creative thinking and critical system design for engineers.

I like SQL but the standard should have included ways to hint instead of the abstraction of "let me do it for you"

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

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