5 Backend Design Patterns for Managing Threads and Sockets
From The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser by Hussein Nasser
January 19, 2026 · 46 min
About this episode
This episode introduces five design patterns for managing threads and sockets in backend applications.
In this video I introduce 5 different design patterns for building backend applications. Each mode explains how a socket listener is established, a connections are established and how threads and connections are managed to read, write and process requests.
People in this episode
Host: Hussein Nasser
Topics covered
- backend design patterns
- thread management
- socket management
- backend applications
- connections
Keywords
- backend design patterns
- threads
- sockets
- socket listener
- connections
- request processing
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