Adjacent: Systems & Security · Adjacent
Networking & the Internet
How a request travels from your laptop to a server and back: packets, IP addresses and routing, TCP vs UDP, DNS, HTTP and HTTPS/TLS, and why the speed of light sets latency floors.
Step 1 of 6 · Overview30 min read ·
Key idea
Prereqs: How computers work. Next: APIs & HTTP; System design basics. Follows Crash Course Computer Science #28–29, *Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach* (Kurose & Ross).Next: 1. Layers