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Networking

How packets become pages.

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  • 01·150 XP
    The Layered Model
    Link → IP → TCP → TLS → HTTP.
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  • 02·175 XP
    DNS
    Stub → recursive → authoritative.
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  • 03·200 XP
    TCP
    Handshake, reliability, slow start.
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  • 04·225 XP
    HTTP Caching
    Cache-Control, ETag, stale-while-revalidate, CDNs.
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  • 05·200 XP
    TLS on the Wire
    ClientHello → Certificate → Finished — what bytes go across.
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  • 06·200 XP
    CDNs and Anycast
    POPs, anycast, origin shields, and pull-vs-push.
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  • 07·200 XP
    Load Balancer Anatomy
    L4 vs L7 internals — conntrack, hashing, slow start, DSR.
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  • 08·175 XP
    Traceroute and MTR
    How traceroute works, and where it lies.
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  • 09·200 XP
    BGP Basics
    AS numbers, prefixes, AS_PATH, and the outages BGP causes.
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