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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
English - February 16, 2024 02:03 - 9 minutes - 8.38 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsTechnology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Background writing is a process that writes dirty pages in shared buffer to the disk (well goes to the OS file cache then get flushed to disk by the OS) I go into this process in this video