Feb 15 · 5 min read · 🧑 Overview When we use the internet, everything feels instant.Pages load. Videos play. APIs respond. It’s easy to forget that underneath all this, data is constantly moving between machines that don’t really trust each other. The internet, by defaul...
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Feb 15 · 4 min read · 🧑 Overview When you send data over the internet, there’s no guarantee it will arrive. That sounds scary, but it’s the default reality. Networks drop packets. Routes change. Machines get busy. Data can arrive late, arrive twice, or arrive out of orde...
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Feb 15 · 5 min read · TCP, UDP and how they relate to HTTP When I first started learning networking, I kept mixing everything up. TCP.UDP.HTTP. They all sounded like “internet protocols.” But the internet isn’t random. It runs on layered rules. And at the core of sending ...
Join discussionFeb 15 · 4 min read · The Internet Needs Rules Imagine, you’re texting your friend on WhatsApp. You’ve greeted him/her “Hello”. But, he/she just received “Hell". This is what internet without rules. Messages could get lost. Could arrive out of order. Could be duplicate...
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Feb 15 · 6 min read · When you start learning networking, you hear terms like TCP ,UDP ,HTTP and it gets confusing very quickly.Let’s simplify everything step by step. Why Do We Even Need These Protocols? The internet is just millions of computers talking to each other. N...
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