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In this video I explain how Network Engineers can move to be a Backend Engineer by capitalizing on their skills in networking. Network Engineers can build great and improve the communication protocols that Backend Engineers use for service to service communication. Network Engineers can also be specialized in Proxies, Reverse Proxies, Load Balancers and Caching Layers. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

Software Engineering is overwhelming and hard, I discuss how to ease up that burden and make it fun here. 0:00 Intro 2:20 Learning Software Engineering 17:55 Bugs 23:30 Design Activities 28:50 Summary

In this live stream we will keep the theme about WebSockets, scaling, layer 7 proxying vs layer 4 proxying in websockets ,  interesting problems and just chatting!       0:00 Intro 13:00 Stream Starts 21:30 WebSockets 1:08:00 Securing WebSockets 1:13:00 Scaling WebSockets Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brKJFkLQWYo&feature=youtu.be --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

In this video, I will go through Database Partitioning and explain it in details, pros and cons with a demo using PostgreSQL. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

In this video, I explain how both Postgres and MySQL store their indexes and their effect on reads vs writes. Let us discuss 0:00 Intro 1:00 Tables 2:00 Indexes 3:20 Indexing in Postgres 5:00 Indexing in MySQL 6:35 What Happens on Update on Postgres 7:20 What Happens on Update on MySQL 9:00 Reads on Postgres 9:40 Reads on MySQL --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

In this Video I discuss Discord WebRTC and Voice chat backend architecture, it is a very interesting article, let us discuss it  https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-handles-two-and-half-million-concurrent-voice-users-using-webrtc-ce01c3187429 0:00 Intro 3:30 WebRTC As a Choice? 8:00 ReWriting WebRTC 11:20 Backend Architecture 20:00 Failover 26:00 My Thoughts --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

PostgreSQL 13 Has Some Performance Boosts! Let us discuss it! Postgres 13 has been released and it has some interesting features how about we discuss it! Resources Press-release https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/detail/341/ Feature Matrix https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/ “The PostgreSQL Global Development Group today announced the release of PostgreSQL 13, the latest version of the world’s most advanced open source database. PostgreSQL 13 includes significant improvements to its indexing and lookup system that benefit large databases, including space savings and performance gains for indexes, faster response times for queries that use aggregates or partitions, better query planning when using enhanced statistics, and more. Along with highly requested features like parallelized vacuuming and incremental sorting, PostgreSQL 13 provides a better data management experience for workloads big and small, with optimizations for daily administration, more convenienc

In this Live stream, I discuss HTTP and answer interesting questions about HTTP, TLS, UDP, QUIC, WebSockets and more from the community  watch the vod here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6G8DdLgdJ4 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

In this Article Stanislav Vishnevskiy elegantly discusses why Discord moved from MongoDB to Apache Cassandra, the challenges they faced, limitations of both Mongo & Cassandra. Well written article let us discuss   https://blog.discord.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-messages-7fa6ec7ee4c7 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

I stumbled upon this interesting article titled Scaling with common sense, the author goes into different topics of the bad practices of pre-mature scaling and optimization specifically with regards to microservices and k8. Let us discuss Resources https://zerodha.tech/blog/scaling-with-common-sense/ 0:00 Intro 3:00 Comparisons are almost always meaningless. 5:30 Scaling starts with well built software. 8:50 Eat healthy and exercise daily. 10:15 KISS, don’t be afraid, and boring better cool. 12:00 The bottleneck is almost always the database. 13:40 RDBMS works, almost always. 15:00 Everyone forgets to index. 17:30 Don’t use an RDBMS. What? 19:40 Networking/IO is really hard. Network as little as possible. 21:20 Connections are hard. Connect little, pool much. 25:00 Latency is THE metric. 26:10 The Internet is the Wild Wild West. 28:40 Caching is a silver bullet, almost. 29:00 Dumb caching is best caching. 29:40 Some application state may not be bad. 31:20 HTTP APIs can be E-Tagged (304) too. 34:12 Allocation

In this video I explain how I was browsing a website (displate) and was served the exact same thing on my Instagram feed --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

Watch the Video here  https://youtu.be/76sgBHUl7iI Alessandro Ghedini wrote an interesting article discussing how DNS queries can help speed up HTTPS and HTTP/3 communication let us discuss this article https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-negotiation-with-dns/ 3:30 TLS video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlE5X1NlHgg 4:57 HSTS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhMnw4aJTw 8:15 http/2 c smuggling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2VEQ3jFq6Q 15:30 ESNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zlO5-NWFU --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

On September 28 2020 Microsoft 365 Service went down, what caused it? and what did Microsoft did to solve it. Resources https://twitter.com/msft365status/status/1310696819135901696?s=21 https://status.office.com/ https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_account-mso_imobile-mso_o365b/error-aadsts90033/d2ba3ef2-fe85-411d-b4fe-5c44df1e121c https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365admin-mso_other-mso_o365b/aadsts90033-a-transient-error-has-occurred-please/8117f18e-9de9-46d7-9505-1708b2a1c732 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/35944/aadsts90033-a-transient-error-has-occurred-please.html --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

In this video I explain how communication protocols are built on top of each other and how each protocol can be stateful or stateless. We need to understand this in order to know which protocol to use to build the right backend.  --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

It looks like Russia is submitting a proposal to block TLS 1.3, ESNI, DoH , DoT, let us discuss  Resources  https://www.zdnet.com/article/russia-wants-to-ban-the-use-of-secure-protocols-such-as-tls-1-3-doh-dot-esni/  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

What scared me about this bug is how EASY it is to execute, no MITM, no special software.. its all exploiting of existing software.. Let us discuss   The SSDP engine in Firefox for Android (68.11.0 and below) can be tricked into triggering Android intent URIs with zero user interaction.  This attack can be leveraged by attackers on the same WiFi network and manifests as applications on the target device suddenly launching, without the users' permission, and conducting activities allowed by the intent.   Resources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-security/security-operations/gl-redteam/red-team-tech-notes/-/tree/master/firefox-android-2020 https://twitter.com/init_string  https://twitter.com/LukasStefanko/status/1307013106615418883 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

Google Bot is now attempting to use HTTP/2 to crawl the web Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2 or h2 for short, web professionals asked us whether Googlebot can crawl over the upgraded, more modern version of the protocol. Today we're announcing that starting mid November 2020, Googlebot will support crawling over HTTP/2 for select sites. Article https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2020/09/googlebot-will-soon-speak-http2.html * Intro 0:00 * What is a Crawler 1:06 * Current Crawler uses h1 2:00 * Crawler now uses h2 4:40 * Less connections, slightly high CPU usage 6:30 * Opting out of h2 crawling 9:00 * FAQ 11:40 Http/2 playlist 0;50 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQWbBegaU790WhH7gNKcMAl- http/2 not cheap 7;00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GriONb4EfPY lucid chart 9;50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gejfT1h6LBo h2c smuggling 18:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2VEQ3jFq6Q --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm

In this video, I explain how I got better at communicating my thoughts, opinions and ideas and how making content on YouTube Channel actually helped. I still have a long way but I found that making content and continuously trying to get better at delivering the core point helps. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

There was a recent article titled Stop Using React which spawned lots of discussions. I want to give my thoughts on this article and React in general.   Resources https://dev.to/ender_minyard/why-you-should-stop-using-react-g7c  https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2020-04-21-the-cost-of-javascript-frameworks/   0:00 Intro 3:20 Its Slow 8:30 Its expensive 12:00 its inaccessible 14:00 React goes against the web 18:00 made by facebook 21:00 my thoughts --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support

In this video, I discuss 3 methods to work with tables of billion rows. This discussion is inspired by a comment on my YouTube video on Twitter System Design right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfq-LG9ZJQA&lc=UgyYbm5889dW0XtKhsV4AaABAg Chapters Intro 0:00 1. Brute Force Distributed Processing 2:30 2. Working with a Subset of table 3:35 2.1 Indexing 3:55 2.2 Partitioning 5:30 2.3 Sharding 7:30 3. Avoid it all together (reshuffle the whole design) 9:10 Summary 11:30 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hnasr/support