# Hussein Nasser: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

Markdown version of https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/ from vidIQ YouTube Stats. Link to that page, not to this file.

As of 2026-10-29, Hussein Nasser has 524,000 subscribers, 29,649,295 total views, and 1,036 videos. It ranks #145,984 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Hussein Nasser](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Hussein Nasser is “VPN is just NAT”, a long-form video published Oct 22, 2026.
- These are Hussein Nasser’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Dec 8, 2025 and Oct 22, 2026 (18 long-form videos and 30 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 4,760. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “you won't forget how postgres works after this” (237,347 views, Aug 13, 2026). Least viewed: “The importance of HTTP 2 Go Away Frame” (1,570 views, Jan 28, 2026).
- Median length: 21:12 for 18 long-form videos; 1:54 for 30 Shorts.
- In this sample, Hussein Nasser’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 1 day, longest 42 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [VPN is just NAT](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/MCbMko4IXKw/) | 2026-10-22 | Long-form | 25,948 | 54:18 | - |
| [AI will not replace elite engineers](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/rnJrc1QOFME/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 65,371 | 56:29 | 1.42x |
| [LLMs are worthless without this (Linux devmem)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/en6Vx7En9HU/) | 2026-09-03 | Long-form | 49,039 | 14:21 | 2.86x |
| [you won't forget how postgres works after this](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/q9jixKv4h2I/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 237,347 | 26:57 | 13.82x |
| [How a query optimization gave birth to Infinite scroll](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/Tzt89dHF79Y/) | 2026-07-10 | Long-form | 16,264 | 20:23 | 1.16x |
| [Postgres is half as fast in Linux 7.0, and we always knew why](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/gO4J5Bkd1Oc/) | 2026-06-17 | Long-form | 44,632 | 33:12 | 3.13x |
| [don't let AI rob you](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/-T39cM3LPk0/) | 2026-06-06 | Long-form | 80,167 | 31:54 | 8.87x |
| [The core of backend system design](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/1nUnRgawAC8/) | 2026-05-14 | Short | 9,983 | 2:52 | 2.04x |
| [My New Book: Root Cause, Two Decades of Backend Engineering](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/Jx_4kfrQsiA/) | 2026-04-15 | Long-form | 13,107 | 9:49 | 2.7x |
| [Someone is always getting blocked](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/hFf9XYR2v1I/) | 2026-04-08 | Short | 5,656 | 1:46 | 1.32x |
| [Postgres is now async by Default](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/uJ2Pa6POVYA/) | 2026-03-25 | Short | 5,126 | 1:54 | 1.43x |
| [ring 3 to ring 0](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/h3NLOCsHj5o/) | 2026-03-14 | Short | 2,555 | 0:56 | - |
| [A private file descriptor per process](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/fj5FKVCiay4/) | 2026-03-11 | Short | 3,771 | 2:50 | - |
| [Copy on Write needs page faults](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/SLUnYKgMRpM/) | 2026-03-07 | Short | 4,798 | 2:26 | 1.35x |
| [The only abstraction I'm ok with, probably](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/X7LLjPn7p2o/) | 2026-02-28 | Short | 3,260 | 1:12 | - |
| [Now what?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/6KqIwSmeU94/) | 2026-02-25 | Short | 4,345 | 1:43 | 1.23x |
| [Thanks NX bit](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/x79Pjq1zOlk/) | 2026-02-21 | Short | 2,602 | 2:51 | - |
| [Memory Management Unit](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/IOjMaoqWk7o/) | 2026-02-17 | Short | 3,708 | 1:49 | - |
| [The cost of virtual memory](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/ImjmBI_-yCs/) | 2026-02-14 | Short | 3,972 | 2:59 | 1.14x |
| [Why is synchronous IO slow?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/DWe-yJ0FvsY/) | 2026-02-11 | Short | 2,627 | 1:37 | - |
| [Offloading CPU Intensive to threads](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/XE87Kkt5wOc/) | 2026-02-07 | Short | 5,180 | 1:33 | 1.54x |
| [CPU's TLB](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/8SHY4-sREDk/) | 2026-02-01 | Short | 3,626 | 1:50 | 1.07x |
| [The importance of HTTP 2 Go Away Frame](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/H4KgIkoPejQ/) | 2026-01-28 | Short | 1,570 | 2:30 | - |
| [How code is tagged read only](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/kn1kgX9ixsA/) | 2026-01-24 | Short | 4,796 | 1:39 | - |
| [Linux's blocking reads and writes](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/ecuWdl6p81w/) | 2026-01-21 | Short | 3,262 | 2:03 | - |
| [Socket Management in Backend System Design](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/x9iHwoAbwiA/) | 2026-01-19 | Long-form | 18,073 | 45:26 | 4.41x |
| [Virtual memory looks sequential but its not](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/lkD0-G4F5os/) | 2026-01-17 | Short | 3,324 | 2:30 | - |
| [h1 Graceful Shutdown](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/RT9xtRoyDh0/) | 2026-01-14 | Short | 2,717 | 1:41 | - |
| [The backbone of backend system design](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/wJO1_l-rnFg/) | 2026-01-13 | Short | 15,298 | 2:52 | 2.3x |
| [The genius of Linux Page Tables](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/yg3gaQSNfQs/) | 2026-01-12 | Long-form | 3,401 | 21:44 | 1.15x |
| [Why first memory access is always slow](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/I0aTvEs98wA/) | 2026-01-10 | Short | 3,087 | 1:54 | - |
| [Sync or Async?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/RIzccIQAVFU/) | 2026-01-07 | Short | 7,902 | 1:55 | 1.34x |
| [Translation Lookaside buffer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/bP9yCSdMFXs/) | 2026-01-05 | Long-form | 2,235 | 11:58 | - |
| [What are page tables?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/YcM2bZDLhk8/) | 2026-01-03 | Short | 4,723 | 2:04 | - |
| [Why h2 takes needs more CPU](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/woBYYCuuKFY/) | 2025-12-31 | Short | 13,200 | 2:55 | 2.29x |
| [All Kernel Page Faults Explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/FnMwGC2XHVM/) | 2025-12-29 | Long-form | 3,032 | 19:17 | 1.01x |
| [Kernel Mode explained](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/envdRxmctTY/) | 2025-12-27 | Short | 12,789 | 2:09 | 2.45x |
| [Why nobody watches YouTube tutorials anymore](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/xZ4mrm6PuII/) | 2025-12-25 | Long-form | 36,399 | 23:14 | 10.04x |
| [Postgres async worker pool](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/ADXxz8LEY2o/) | 2025-12-24 | Short | 5,464 | 1:46 | 1.23x |
| [The Cost of Switching to Kernel Mode](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/KFcyF66IeuE/) | 2025-12-22 | Long-form | 4,696 | 6:08 | 1.68x |
| [Virtual memory mappings](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/zajyvSf2YxY/) | 2025-12-20 | Short | 8,028 | 1:54 | 2x |
| [Why It took Postgres years to do async](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/DFTSYgKczhY/) | 2025-12-18 | Long-form | 15,378 | 20:40 | 4.22x |
| [Graceful shutdown is needed to scale backends](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/Qpgpty0rbqw/) | 2025-12-17 | Short | 3,801 | 1:53 | 1.08x |
| [Page Tables \| The Backend Engineering Show](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/aJpcysMJkvk/) | 2025-12-15 | Long-form | 4,997 | 45:07 | 1.84x |
| [System calls need a context switch](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/U3HjQ7rG_u0/) | 2025-12-13 | Short | 4,268 | 1:03 | 1.17x |
| [How HTTP/2 frees connections](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/ImaSgNgxu00/) | 2025-12-11 | Long-form | 2,306 | 12:00 | - |
| [What's after postgres 18?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/TIJ8Syw35x0/) | 2025-12-10 | Short | 2,447 | 2:35 | - |
| [How Huge Pages Work in Linux](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@hnasr/videos/ezq8tIMkPB0/) | 2025-12-08 | Long-form | 3,462 | 15:09 | 1.18x |

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