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The Journey of an HTTP Request to the Backend - Backend Engineering Show

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This course traces an HTTP request from a browser click through DNS resolution, TCP connection, proxies, API gateways, encryption, and backend response. It focuses on the networking layers and latency encountered in production-style architectures.

Syllabus

Intro
The anatomy of a request
The journey of a request
Opening a browser instance
Domain name query
Root server
TCP connection
Get request
Cookies
TCP
Reverse Proxy
API Gateway
Minimize Response Time
Encryption

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Hussein Nasser

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