If you are bored of contemporary topics of AI and need a breather, I invite you to join me to explore a mundane, fundamental and earthy topic.The CPU.A reading of my substack article https://hnasr.substack.com/p/the-beauty-of-the-cpu
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Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster
This new PostgreSQL 17 feature is game changer. They know can combine IOs when performing sequential scan. Grab my database coursehttps://courses.husseinnasser.com
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Does discipline work?
No technical video today, just talking about the idea of discipline and consistency.
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Socket management and Kernel Data structures
Fundamentals of Operating Systems Course This video is an overview of how the operating system kernel does socket management and the different data structures it utilizes to achieve that.timestamps0:00 Intro1:38 Socket vs Connections7:50 SYN and Accept Queue18:56 Socket Sharding23:14 Receive and Send buffers27:00 Summary
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The genius of long polling
Polling is the ability to interrogate a backend to see if a piece of information is ready. It can introduce a chatty system and as a result long polling was born. In this video I explain the beauty of this design pattern and how we can push it to its limit.
0:00 Intro
0:45 Polling
2:30 Problem with Polling
3:50 Long Polling
8:18 Timeouts
10:00 Long Polling Benefits
12:00 Make requests into Long Polling
17:36 Request Resumption
21:40 Summary
Su 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
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