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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

535 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

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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Episodes

Episode 39 - Geodatabase Talk - Versioning

August 14, 2018 13:50 - 8 minutes - 7.48 MB

We discuss the concept of versioning (high isolation) in the geodatabase.

Episode 38 - Geodatabase Talk - Workspaces

August 06, 2018 17:45 - 4 minutes - 4.06 MB

We discuss the geodatabase connection which is called a workspace,

Episode 37 - Geodatabase Talk - Tables

August 03, 2018 14:49 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MB

We discuss the table artifact in the geodatabase.

Episode 36 - Geodatabase Talk

August 01, 2018 15:30 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MB

This is a new series that discusses the Esri geodatabase technology!

Episode 35 - ArcGIS Server Talk - Pooling

July 06, 2018 13:53 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

Discussing Connection Pooling in ArcGIS Server

Episode 34 - ArcGIS Server Talk - Process isolation

July 04, 2018 03:21 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Process isolation

Episode 33 - ArcGIS Server Talk - Site Clusters

June 26, 2018 13:58 - 6 minutes - 6.09 MB

Server site cluster discussion

Episode 32 - ArcGIS Server Talk - Server Site

June 24, 2018 02:10 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MB

Discussion about server site, port 6080,6443, configuration store and creating and joining existing site

Episode 31 - Arcgis Server Talk

June 15, 2018 15:36 - 7 minutes - 6.81 MB

Discussing arcgis server technology part 1

Episode 30 - Disk

March 04, 2018 18:09 - 6 minutes - 3.8 MB

Discussion on Persisted storage in the disk while taking a walk in Bahrain 🇧🇭 . Enjoy.

Episode 29 - Who is Hussein Nasser?

March 04, 2018 17:43 - 29 minutes - 16.8 MB

In this podcast I talk about my story. Where did I come from? What did I study? What jobs did I have? Why did I start my blog and Youtube Channel? How did I write my books? Why did I move to the United States? and much more.. Stay Awesome guys and Enjoy the podcast. Hussein

Episode 28 - What is GIS?

February 08, 2018 19:02 - 4 minutes - 2.56 MB

Discussion on GIS geographic information system my career since 2005. Enjoy

Episode 27 - Why Coding is Hard?

February 08, 2018 15:07 - 5 minutes - 3.05 MB

We discuss we some people are intermediated by programming or find it hard to learn. Spoiler alert it is our fault as educators.

Episode 26 - Caching

February 07, 2018 01:59 - 5 minutes - 2.91 MB

Caching explained simply.

Episode 25 - Cash in on your passion

February 06, 2018 12:51 - 8 minutes - 4.59 MB

This episode is pulled from my vlog right after I finished Gary vee book Crush it. Today I finished @garyvee book Crush it (Cash in on Your Passion). I read alot of books but dont necessary review them in my SM. However this book is different, though written 9 years ago and some technologies are dead but that in itself shows this guy jumps on bleeding edge technologies like there is no tomorrow which I love. Never mind, that book actually inspired me to twist Gary’s ideas in the software engi...

Episode 24 - Bleeding Edge Technologies

February 01, 2018 16:25 - 5 minutes - 2.99 MB

New technologies appear every day. We ask the question should software engineers learn new emerging technologies as soon as they come in? We answer yes and We bring in badass Gary vee as a successful example of someone who tackle any new social media app.

Episode 23 - Why JSON is so Popular?

January 31, 2018 15:34 - 4 minutes - 2.71 MB

We discuss how JSON became popular. It isn’t some fashion trend, its convenience. We also discuss how XML was invented as an interchange format.

Episode 22 - Latency

January 29, 2018 20:34 - 5 minutes - 3.01 MB

Discussion of latency across the entire software stack. Enjoy

Episode 21 - RDBMS

January 26, 2018 03:40 - 12 minutes - 7.15 MB

We discuss relational databases. Their properties and scalability.

Episode 20 - Cool feature in git

January 24, 2018 03:32 - 4 minutes - 2.42 MB

I discovered git submodules today. I talk about how I found them and how they helped my code reusability.

Episode 19 - Python as a Web Server

January 24, 2018 03:30 - 4 minutes - 2.75 MB

We answer the question can Python runs on the backend and serve REST end points

Episode 18 - Memory Leaks

January 24, 2018 03:28 - 5 minutes - 3 MB

We discuss memory leaks. What are they? How they happen? How dangerous can they be?

Episode 17 - UX ... then REST

January 23, 2018 01:53 - 4 minutes - 2.29 MB

We discuss how an engineer can save tremendous design and architecture efforts at the backend building the REST services by actually starting with the user experience. As usual with an example. Cheers y’all

Episode 16 - TheDragon fights Engineers too

January 23, 2018 01:46 - 4 minutes - 2.86 MB

We talk about how the we are meant to create beautiful art and how the resistance (the dragon) is stopping us from putting that work out there.

Episode 15 - I Wrote Bad Front-End Code

January 19, 2018 02:48 - 7 minutes - 4.16 MB

While building an Alien Invasion javascript game I wrote some bad code that froze my chrome. I discuss the unscalable piece of code and go through how I discovered it and how to fix it.

Episode 14 - Learn Software By Doing

January 19, 2018 02:45 - 5 minutes - 3.33 MB

With new technologies it becomes overwhelming for engineers to learn. We discuss one of the best ways to learn the new technologies by doing projects using them. Step out of your comfort zone and build apps using those tech!

Episode 13 - Do Developers Make Lousy UX?

January 18, 2018 18:29 - 9 minutes - 5.49 MB

In this episode we discuss why lot of people think Developers make unusable and lousy user experiences and interfaces. We take examples of Windows vs Mac and a throw back from a blog post I wrote 10 years ago. Enjoy

Episode 12 - Stateless vs Stateful

January 16, 2018 01:54 - 9 minutes - 5.72 MB

We discuss stateless and stateful client / server architecture using instagram as an example.

Episode 11 - Persistence

January 13, 2018 02:07 - 12 minutes - 7.27 MB

We discuss how persistence at the client side. We bring Siri, Whatsapp and Twitter s examples of dealing with persistence of draft, lost and unsent messages .

Episode 10 - Scalable Software

January 12, 2018 02:29 - 14 minutes - 8.32 MB

We discuss software scaling in three tiers. The front end, the backend and the middle. We take instagram as an example for all three tiers.

Episode 09 - Advice to new Software Engineers

January 08, 2018 18:33 - 9 minutes - 5.72 MB

This podcast is for software engineers that just started their career and facing pressure from outside world to divert their path. Keep doing what you love.

Episode 08 - UX and Software Architecture

January 05, 2018 01:54 - 11 minutes - 6.55 MB

Does the user experience derive the software architecture or vise versa? Can user experience help determine what backend database you end up using? We discuss both styles of engineering and talk about pros and cons. Enjoy

Episode 02 - Stuck at your job?

January 02, 2018 14:25 - 9 minutes - 5.72 MB

In this episode we discuss how can you make a change to your career. I also talk about my experience a little. Enjoy

Episode 01 - Sync vs aSync

December 29, 2017 14:51 - 14 minutes - 8.58 MB

We discuss two programming styles both have their advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy

IGeometry Podcast - Intro

December 29, 2017 01:22 - 4 minutes - 2.39 MB

First podcast - intro - welcome to IG podcast

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