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Developers will be prompters (and that is bad)

AI will not replace elite engineers

Engineers will be out of the 'Loops'

SQL was a mistake

Caching is a cop-out

How open ai agents "hacked" hugging face

How a query optimization gave birth to infinite scroll

Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0

Don't let AI rob you

New Book: Root cause

5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets

Page Tables

CPU and Kernel Page Faults

Amazon US-EAST-1 Outage in Details

Graceful shutdown in HTTP

Postgres 18 gets Async IO

Kernel level TLS

The beauty of the CPU

Sequential Scans in Postgres just got faster

Does discipline work?

Socket management and Kernel Data structures

The genius of long polling

Six stages of a good software engineer

This new Linux patch can speed up Reading Requests

Cloudflare's 150ms global cache purge | Deep Dive

MySQL is having a bumpy journey

How many kernel calls in NodeJS vs Bun vs Python vs native C

When do you use threads?

Frontend and Backends Timeouts

Postgres is combining IO in version 17

Windows vs Linux Kernel

Running out of TCP ephemeral source ports

io uring gets even faster

They made Python faster with this compiler option

How Apache Kafka got faster by switching ext4 to XFS

Google Patches Linux kernel with 40% TCP performance

Database Torn pages

Cloudflare Open sources Pingora (NGINX replacement)

The Internals of MongoDB

The Beauty of Programming Languages

The Danger of Defaults - A PostgreSQL Story

Database Background writing

The Cost of Memory Fragmentation

The Real Hidden Cost of a Request

Why create Index blocks writes

The Problems of an HTTP/3 Backend

Encrypted Client Hello - The Pros & Cons

The Journey of a Request to the Backend

They Enabled Postgres Partitioning and their Backend fell apart

WebTransport - A Backend Game Changer

Your SSD lies but that's ok | Postgres fsync

The problem with software engineering

2x Faster Reads and Writes with this MongoDB feature | Clustered Collections

Prime Video Swaps Microservices for Monolith: 90% Cost Reduction

A Deep Dive in How Slow SELECT * is

AWS Serverless Lambda Supports Response Streaming

The Cloudflare mTLS vulnerability - A Deep Dive Analysis

The Virgin Media ISP outage - What happened?

GitHub SSH key is Leaked - How bad is this?

Cookie Hijacking - How Linus Tech Tips got Hacked

All Postgres Locks Explained | A Deep Dive

Pinterest moves to HTTP/3

Why Loom Users got each others’ sessions on March 7th 2023

How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages - A deep dive

Postgres Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

How Alt-Svc switches HTTP/2 clients to use HTTP/3 | The Backend Engineering Show

Your DNS queries will eventually look like this (0x20 DNS encoding)

DropBox Removed their SSDs, got 20% faster writes

MySQL on HTTP/3 | The Backend Engineering Show

How Shopify’s engineering improved writes by 50% with ULID | The Backend Engineering Show

MongoDB Internal Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

How UI/UX can break the backend

Do DHCP and DNS Servers Communicate?

Compressing Certificates in TLS | The Backend Engineering Show

OpenSSL new vulnerability

TCP Protective Load Balancing coming to Linux Kernel 6.2

When NodeJS I/O Blocks | The Backend Engineering Show

NGINX Internal Architecture - Workers | The Backend Engineering Show

Cloudflare is moving away from NGINX | The Backend Engineering Show

Threads and Connections | The Backend Engineering Show

Memcached Architecture | The Backend Engineering Show

Is SmartNIC a game changer for network performance? | The Backend Engineering Show

Consistent Hashing | The Backend Engineering Show

Replacing TCP for the Datacenter - Discussing the Homa paper

ByteDance makes Linux kernel reboots faster

This dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability can easily be triggered | CVE-2022-2274 Explained

NULLs are weird, PG15 makes them less weird

This decades old function in Linux is now 4 times faster

Amazon Aurora Supports Postgres 14

Canada Rogers ISP Internet Outage - Early report and speculation

Index Fill Factor | The Backend Engineering Show

HTTP 103 - Early Hints

YugabyteDB supports read committed isolation

Mutual TLS | The Backend Engineering Show

Cloudflare Outage Analysis - Jun 21 2022

When CSS loads last - HTTP Request Prioritization (RFC 9218) | The Backend Engineering Show

What is a zero day attack?

This project could free millions of IPv4 addresses, but is it worth it?

Sorting in Postgres 15 is 371% faster in certain cases

UDP hole punching