Backend Engineering - Beginner
Comprehensive video series covering essential backend engineering concepts, from networking fundamentals to database management and system design, ideal for beginners entering the field.
Backend Engineering - Intermediate
Comprehensive system design concepts for backend engineers, covering TCP, proxying, databases, HTTP/2, load balancing, API optimization, and more. Ideal for intermediate learners preparing for design interviews.
HTTP - Live Stream
Comprehensive exploration of HTTP evolution, from version 1.0 to 2.0, covering key concepts, improvements, and challenges in web communication protocols.
Analyzing ChatGPT Backend
Explore ChatGPT's backend architecture, including protocols, authentication, AI models, and server-sent events. Learn about conversation management, message moderation, and database optimizations.
Threads and Connections - The Backend Engineering Show
Explore the evolution of multi-threading apps, threading models, and backend connection management in this comprehensive overview of threads and connections in backend engineering.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MySQL on HTTP-3 - The Backend Engineering Show
Exploring HTTP/3 and HTTP/2 for MySQL communication, comparing performance with the MySQL Binary protocol. Analyzes connection costs, parallel selects, and protocol efficiency for backend-database interactions.
Compressing Certificates in TLS - The Backend Engineering Show
Explore TLS certificate compression techniques to enhance performance by reducing certificate size, improving handshake efficiency, and optimizing network traffic in secure communications.
The Beauty of the Internet Protocol
Explore the elegance of the Internet Protocol, its role in routing, addressing, and enabling VPNs. Learn about IP addresses, network routing, and the protocol's impact on modern communication.
Understanding Aggregate Functions Performance - The Backend Engineering Show
Explore aggregate function performance in databases, focusing on COUNT, AVG, and MAX. Learn about clustering, sequential and random writes, and optimization strategies for improved query efficiency.
The Anatomy of a Proxy Server - The Backend Engineering Show
Explore proxy server anatomy, covering connection establishment without proxies, with HTTP proxies, and HTTPS proxies in tunnel and TLS termination modes.
Why It Is Very Hard to Cancel an HTTP Request
Explore the complexities of canceling HTTP requests in production environments, examining the request lifecycle and challenges faced by backend engineers.
How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - Deep Dive
Explore Discord's journey from Cassandra to ScyllaDB, optimizing database performance for trillions of messages. Learn about distributed systems, data structures, and architectural improvements.
When NodeJS I-O Blocks - The Backend Engineering Show
Explore NodeJS asynchronous I/O, covering sockets, file operations, DNS, single-threading, thread pools, and DNS lookup bottlenecks for improved backend performance.
Deep Dive on How Static Files Are Served With HTTP - Kernel, Sockets, File System, Memory, Zero Copy
Explore the intricate process of serving static files via HTTP, covering kernel operations, sockets, file systems, memory management, and zero-copy techniques.
Consistent Hashing - The Backend Engineering Show
Explore consistent hashing in distributed systems, focusing on its application in databases like Cassandra and DynamoDB. Learn about implementation, advantages, and limitations.
Better Integration Tests for Performance Monitoring
Discover how Slack built "Slerf" to detect and prevent performance regressions, improving product stability while maintaining high development velocity.