The Journey of an HTTP request to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show

In this episode of the backend engineering show, I explain the journey of an HTTP request that gets initiated from a click on a link. I discuss DNS, TCP, API Gateways, reverse proxies, load balancers , backend web servers, and much more.

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[nontraditionaltech]

Hussein, you’re my favorite! Even though I’m 41, I wanna be like you when I grow up 😎

[pragmaticindianenginner]

Hey Naseer, I've been watching your videos for quite some time now. I have to say that this channel is undoubtedly one of those which has the actual software engineering content. I love the way you dive deep into the details and do a detailed analysis of the outage, vulnerabilities etc. I learn a lot from you dude.

A big thank you to from my side for delivering such amazing content. You're one such person whom I actually look up to. Thanks a lot. Keep making such videos.

[Varun]

Yours is the only youtube channel where I have bought the membership to because the value of the knowledge you provide is 10000x what the membership costs and I will continue to be a member so you can hopefully pump more videos out
Thank you <3

[khaledmaruf]

Hi Hussein,
Your videos are great and pretty descriptive, but I think It'll be nice if you sometimes if you show some slides with some drawings as you verbally elaborate the parts. That'll help at least some of us to follow easily :)

TIA

[curiossoul]

Wow. A few millis round trip is so complex that it took 36 minutes to walk through its flow. I feel this is also a brilliant summary of your Networking course, several concepts were referred to in the talk. Thank you 🙏

[adityasethi]

You're a genius. Is there a way to work with you? Like I'm a software developer and I would definitely love to work with you. The passion you have to understand these technologies in detail is just amazing and so damn inspiring. Really think you're the best on YouTube.

[SaifurRahman]

It will be interesting to watch all these parts practically in a local machine! Great video Nasser!

[cacurazi]

Too complicated for me. I need to go back to study the basics...

Your knowledge is much appreciated Hussein. Thank you!

[jimjuma]

I listen to this as a podcast. Absolutely love it.

[lakhveerchahal]

This is a very interesting area to talk about. Networking!
Would love some practical videos on this topic too.
Much love as always ❤️

[ramshankarkumar]

Amazing detailed talk. Thank you for this talk !!! Love your content.

[michaelangelovideos]

You’re amazing man. Please keep this content up🙏

[michas]

Gest job Hussein! Recently I bought two of your courses. I hope that more courses regarding backend programming will be released soon 😀

[khanriza]

This sounds like a sermon you'd hear at friday prayers.

[krishnasumanth]

That expression you gave after the phrase "unless you're a chinese laptop" 😄

[developerscorner]

You should start a podcast with a voice like that Hussein :p

[kamalhm-dev]

Hussein, great content. But please keep it focused on the content. For example, when you're talking about http2, you'd digress to saying things about http3 which made your story harder to digest

[seekspire]

Hello,
Can you create a video with a diagramatic representation which shows what you are saying. Actually it's going bouncer

[ahmedtawil]

Nice show Hussein, what about the next topic you talk about smtp and how mail server work and the basics of email ❤️