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Notes on backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and making things hold up better.
Explore everything a browser does before a request ever leaves the machine: interpreting the address bar, parsing and normalizing the URL, enforcing HSTS and service worker policies, checking local caches and extensions, choosing a network path, and the URL-based attacks that exploit this stage.
- networking
- web
- browser
- security
Follow a web request from pressing Enter to rendered pixels, exploring DNS, routing, TCP, TLS, HTTP, browser security, infrastructure, backend systems, and observability.
- networking
- web
- backend
- security