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Decoding HTTP: Networking Fundamentals for System Designers

  • 🌐 Series: System Design Interviews
  • 📖 Main topic: HTTP protocol and networking fundamentals
  • 🎯 Target Audience: Junior Software Engineers without prior experience and more experienced developers seeking a different perspective.

Topics:

  • 💡 OSI Model and Layers: Software Engineers should focus on layer 7 (application layer, where HTTP resides) and layer 4 (transport protocols like TCP/IP and UDP).
  • ✂️ The application layer: HTTP Request/Response format, HTTP Methods, HTTP Headers.
  • 🚆 Transport Layer - TCP/IP vs UDP, three-way handshake.
  • 📈 Future of HTTP: HTTP2.0 and HTTP3.0.
  • 🌐 System Design: HTTP's stateless nature allows for horizontal scaling and load balancing

Read the full article at https://cloudnativeengineer.substack.com/p/networking-fundamentals-for-system-design

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