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Hussein Nasser @UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg@youtube.com

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Why Cloudflare Ditched NGINX Cloudflare's Rust proxy Can NGINX fix this? Switching Threads is Faster They love Rust Should you build backend from scratch Tech's Yin & Yang 404 isn't an error Anxiety Engineering IPv6 is the future Localhost in IPv4 vs IPv6 Why is Windows slower than Linux here? Package.json Package-lock json is terrible name for a critical file Why Cloudflare Ditched NGINX TLS done in the NIC? Kernel Software vs Hardware TLS Zero Copy File Transfer - Kernel TLS Predictable backend design with long polling and queues The History of MongoDB Locking SQL is an API, its all about data storage Why MongoDB's _id lookup is fast (internals) Asynchronous backend processing with long polling This is how MongoDB and MySQL are similar How Databases REALLY Work internally! RAM vs Disk Databases are just pages of bytes Short polling is too chatty on the backend Invited to speak at HAProxy Conf 2025! Memcached brilliant solution to fragmentation Is gRPC Web Native? WebSockets is not free Postgres, JSON and TOAST #database A Postgres Page can fit 291 rows on a single column table Lower and Upper ASCII differs by a single bit (0x20) How the first version of MongoDB How MongoDB stores documents The Frontend of a Database select count(*) is expensive ui/ux Why large certificate chains slow down TLS handshake TLS certificates and OS certificates stores Operating systems are sneaky Hash tables are brilliant and simple How TikTok devs made linux reboots faster Persistent connections in django Django opens database connection upon request NodeJS threading Balancing Requests instead of connections among threads