Timeouts, Retries, and Backoff — the practical playbook
Design request deadlines, hop timeouts, and idempotent retries with jitter so you protect upstreams, tame tail latency, and avoid cascading failures.
devreliabilityresilience
Posts tagged “networking”
Tiny explainers grouped by topic. Spend less time Googling, more time building.
Demystifying DNS Propagation — why changes aren’t instant
DNS changes feel slow because of caching everywhere: resolvers, browsers, OSes, CDNs, and parent zones. Here’s the mental model, typical timelines, and how to plan zero‑drama cutovers.
devdnsnetworking
What Happens When You Type a URL in a Browser — the tiny explainer
A concise, modern walkthrough of the path from address bar to pixels: DNS lookup, HTTP/3 & TLS 1.3 handshakes, CDNs & caching, request/response, and the rendering pipeline.
devwebnetworking