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Learn load balancing from scratch: build a production-ready load balancer with sticky sessions in Go. Complete with WebSocket support, health checking, rate limiting, and real-world deployment strategies.
Posts tagged "networking"
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Article · Through the layers
gRPC from the Ground Up: The Real Parsing Stack
What actually happens between bytes arriving on a socket and your gRPC handler running? This article walks one real request through every parsing layer — TCP, HTTP/2 frames, HPACK, gRPC envelope, protobuf — so the magic disappears.- Published on
Article · Through the layers
WebSockets From the Wire Up
Most WebSocket tutorials start at the API. This one starts at the wire — electrons, NIC interrupts, kernel socket buffers, the TCP state machine, the HTTP upgrade handshake, the binary frame format — and works up to what ws.send() actually does.- Published on
Reference · Through the layers
gRPC Streaming vs Unary: What Actually Changes at the Wire Level
Most comparisons of gRPC streaming vs unary stop at the API surface. This one goes to the wire — HTTP/2 frames, protobuf framing, peak memory, and latency to first byte.- Published on
Learn multiple methods to identify and stop processes occupying a specific port, using commands like `lsof`, `ss`, and `fuser`, especially when standard tools aren’t available.