Lower and Upper ASCII differs by a single bit (0x20) Post date February 2, 2023 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Your DNS queries will eventually look like this (0x20 DNS encoding) Post date January 28, 2023 Post author By Hussein Nasser
DropBox Removed their SSDs, got 20% faster writes Post date January 24, 2023 Post author By Hussein Nasser
How Shopify’s engineering improved database writes by 50% with ULID Post date December 23, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
How DNS and DHCP Servers Communicate (With wireshark) Post date November 17, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Why large certificate chains slow down TLS handshake Post date November 8, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Compressing Certificates in TLS | The Backend Engineering Show Post date November 8, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Google pushes TCP Protective Load Balancing to Linux Kernel 6.2 Post date November 6, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
New Udemy Course – Fundamentals of Backend Communications, Design Patterns and Protocols Post date November 4, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Django opens database connection upon request Post date October 16, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Cloudflare is moving away from NGINX | The Backend Engineering Show Post date October 5, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Balancing Requests instead of connections among threads Post date September 24, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Threads and Connections | The Backend Engineering Show Post date September 1, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Memcached Architecture – Crash Course with Docker, Telnet, NodeJS Post date August 28, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Is SmartNIC a game changer for network performance? | The Backend Engineering Show Post date August 16, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show Post date August 6, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Discussing the Homa paper – Replacing TCP for the Datacenter | The Backend Engineering Show Post date August 1, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
This dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability can easily be triggered | CVE-2022-2274 Explained Post date July 15, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
nulls are weird, Postgres15 makes them slightly better Post date July 14, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
This decades old Linux function is now 4 times faster Post date July 13, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Canada Rogers ISP Internet Outage – Early report and speculation Post date July 9, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Index Fill Factor | The Backend Engineering Show Post date July 8, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
This backend could be better | DevTooling Twitter Post date June 28, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
HTTP Request Prioritization (RFC 9218) | The Backend Engineering Show Post date June 19, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
This project could free millions of IPv4 addresses, but is it worth it? Post date June 2, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
Sorting in Postgres 15 is 371% faster in certain cases Post date June 2, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser
UDP hole punching | The Backend Engineering Show Post date May 31, 2022 Post author By Hussein Nasser