39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.
3 articles matching “TCP”
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.
Tradeoffs in Production15 min read
When a service buckles under load, the first instinct is to make the buffer bigger — and it's the most natural wrong answer in systems engineering.
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.