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Backend Engineering

APIs, authentication, databases, queues, serverless and production backend systems

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API Design
beginner
Design a RESTful API following best practices
Auth & Authorisation
intermediate
Implement JWT auth with refresh tokens
Database Integration
intermediate
Use an ORM (Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Drizzle)
Backend Performance
advanced
Implement Redis caching for hot data
Microservices Patterns
advanced
Decompose a monolith into microservices
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Why close connections
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Why close connections
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Freeing HTTP/1.1 Connection
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Freeing HTTP/1.1 Connection
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
Harry Amad - Improving the Generation and Evaluation of Synthetic Data for Downstream Medical Causal
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Harry Amad - Improving the Generation and Evaluation of Synthetic Data for Downstream Medical Causal
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Chang Shi FLAM Scaling Latent Action World Models with Factorization
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Chang Shi FLAM Scaling Latent Action World Models with Factorization
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Don't miss this chance to learn and become an ai expert
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Manish Srivastava Advanced 7mo ago
What is Amazon Aurora | Animated Explainer | Amazon Web Services
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What is Amazon Aurora | Animated Explainer | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Advanced 8mo ago
How Nuro transformed end-to-end AI and data discovery with Google Cloud Consulting
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How Nuro transformed end-to-end AI and data discovery with Google Cloud Consulting
Google Cloud Advanced 8mo ago
Sponsored Session: Lightning Talk: Accelerated Software for a Post-Moore World - Jay Dawani
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Sponsored Session: Lightning Talk: Accelerated Software for a Post-Moore World - Jay Dawani
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IBM Db2 pureScale for HPC use-cases | Amazon Web Services
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IBM Db2 pureScale for HPC use-cases | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Advanced 8mo ago
Meet Cloud SQL: Google Cloud's fully managed and intelligent relational database service
Backend Engineering
Meet Cloud SQL: Google Cloud's fully managed and intelligent relational database service
Google Cloud Tech Advanced 8mo ago
From Architecture to Performance: How We Built a Reliable AI Service
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From Architecture to Performance: How We Built a Reliable AI Service
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Why do we need virtual memory
Backend Engineering
Why do we need virtual memory
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
The state of Direct IO in Postgres
Backend Engineering
The state of Direct IO in Postgres
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
Blocked Process gets kicked out
Backend Engineering
Blocked Process gets kicked out
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
What threads get from their process
Backend Engineering
What threads get from their process
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
Postgres 18 Async IO methods
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Postgres 18 Async IO methods
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
When Chrome didn't respect GOAWAYs
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When Chrome didn't respect GOAWAYs
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
Virtual Memory Areas (VMAs)
Backend Engineering
Virtual Memory Areas (VMAs)
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
Can't TCP to the backend? This may be it
Backend Engineering
Can't TCP to the backend? This may be it
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
Hallee Wong - Efficient Segmentation of New Biomedical Imaging Datasets from Scratch
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Hallee Wong - Efficient Segmentation of New Biomedical Imaging Datasets from Scratch
Cohere Advanced 7mo ago
The rule of CPU in the Kernel
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The rule of CPU in the Kernel
Hussein Nasser Advanced 7mo ago
PostgreSQL 18 Asynchronous I O
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PostgreSQL 18 Asynchronous I O
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Why you need to close sockets
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Why you need to close sockets
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Blocking I/O = Context switch
Backend Engineering
Blocking I/O = Context switch
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Database Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO
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Database Synchronous vs Asynchronous IO
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
one request = one h2 stream
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one request = one h2 stream
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
why Google disabled IO uring
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why Google disabled IO uring
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Page faults
Backend Engineering
Page faults
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Socket Sharding
Backend Engineering
Socket Sharding
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Add-on license for Db2 on AWS Marketplace | Amazon Web Services
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Add-on license for Db2 on AWS Marketplace | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services Advanced 8mo ago
Primary Key vs Secondary Key - What you probably didn't know
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Primary Key vs Secondary Key - What you probably didn't know
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Sockets used to be blocking until async
Backend Engineering
Sockets used to be blocking until async
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show
Backend Engineering
HTTP Graceful shutdown | The Backend Engineering Show
Hussein Nasser Advanced 8mo ago
Node and the Thread Pool
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Node and the Thread Pool
Hussein Nasser Advanced 9mo ago
A process is a program in motion
Backend Engineering
A process is a program in motion
Hussein Nasser Advanced 9mo ago
Asynchronous IO in Postgres 18 | The Backend Engineering Show
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Asynchronous IO in Postgres 18 | The Backend Engineering Show
Hussein Nasser Advanced 9mo ago
Threads are light and all but
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Threads are light and all but
Hussein Nasser Advanced 9mo ago
Louis Beaumont - Building AI agents that reliably automate repetitive workflows in legacy Windows s
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Louis Beaumont - Building AI agents that reliably automate repetitive workflows in legacy Windows s
Cohere Advanced 9mo ago
MySQL 8 0 vs 5 7 Which Database Is Slower?
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MySQL 8 0 vs 5 7 Which Database Is Slower?
Hussein Nasser Advanced 9mo ago
Jaisidh Singh - Almost Free Modality Stitching of Foundation Models
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Jaisidh Singh - Almost Free Modality Stitching of Foundation Models
Cohere Advanced 9mo ago
Database Fundamentals
Backend Engineering
Database Fundamentals
Hussein Nasser Advanced 10mo ago
MySQL crashes on 10,000 tables an interesting bug since fixed
Backend Engineering
MySQL crashes on 10,000 tables an interesting bug since fixed
Hussein Nasser Advanced 10mo ago
Load balancing WebSockets Streams efficeintly
Backend Engineering
Load balancing WebSockets Streams efficeintly
Hussein Nasser Advanced 10mo ago
Upgrading to MySQL 8? Watch out for this
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Upgrading to MySQL 8? Watch out for this
Hussein Nasser Advanced 10mo ago
Why Postgres is Popular
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Why Postgres is Popular
Hussein Nasser Advanced 10mo ago
Address Resolution Protocol
Backend Engineering
Address Resolution Protocol
Hussein Nasser Advanced 11mo ago
Kimbo Chen - Dragon in the CUDA Moat NVIDIA Tensor Core Evolution
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Kimbo Chen - Dragon in the CUDA Moat NVIDIA Tensor Core Evolution
Cohere Advanced 11mo ago
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