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Hussein Nasser
@hnasr
Backend and Database Courses courses.husseinnasser.com YouTube youtube.com/@hnasr Author of Root Cause amzn.to/4cfQjJj Engineer @esri
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    Hussein Nasser
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    Apr 15
    I wrote a new book that has been in the works for years. It is called Root Cause, and it is for those who enjoy the art of backend engineering. Early in my career, 20 years ago, I built backend and database applications without fully grasping their inner mechanics. Performance
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    Hussein Nasser
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    Aug 2
    I built this training course with the firm belief that troubleshooting backend systems is an enjoyable skill that can be applied to any system, no matter how complex it may seem. Even if you don’t have the source code or know very little about the system, or an AI produced it,
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    Hussein Nasser
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    Jul 31
    It is our lack of understanding of how systems work that leads to the poor performance. Fully understanding existing components and how they work is something we rarely do. We throw our hands and blame the component, the tool, the framework, the language and the database.
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    Hussein Nasser
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    Jul 29
    The “or” in common English really means "xor" in computer logic Don't quote me on this but when someone says: “You can have A or B” it often implies that you cannot have both. While in computer logic A or B means having both A and B is also true. A xor B however implies A and B
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    Hussein Nasser
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    Jul 27
    AI was fed on the knowledge humans discovered, tethered to the limitations and assumptions of current affairs. Human creativity has the capacity to envision a world without those limitations, and to break current assumptions to rewrite what was once considered fundamental

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