39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “Networking”
Tradeoffs in Production16 min read
Kernel TCP keep-alive probes the network path; app heartbeats prove the peer process is serving; HTTP Connection: keep-alive only reuses sockets.
Load Balancing15 min read
A simple, ground-up guide: L4 forwards raw TCP/UDP by IP and port, L7 opens the HTTP request and routes by URL, host, headers or cookies.
Architecture Decisions20 min read
A beginner-friendly walkthrough: what “concurrent” means, what the C10K and C10M problems actually are, how the industry usually fixes them (event loops vs whole-system design), and what still goes wrong in production —…