DNS
Turning names into addresses, and the caching that makes it confusing.
2 subjects · 2 topics
Subjects covering this category
2 subjects- Subject · Beginner to Advanced
Turning a product's requirements into a first design for a web system, and knowing what each part is there for.
- Starting a Design
- The Parts of a System
- Moving Data Around
- Subject · Beginner to Advanced
Following a request from an application down through the network layers and back, and naming the layer where a network problem lives.
- Getting a Packet There
- Between Two Programs
- Applications and Debugging
In DNS itself
2 topics- The OSI Model and Network Protocols
DNS: how a domain name becomes an IP address, which record types exist, and why a change takes time to reach everyone.
Beginner to Intermediate9 cards · 6 qnot started
- System Design
The building blocks of a web system: DNS, CDNs, application servers and databases, and the path a request takes through them.
Beginner to Intermediate11 cards · 8 qnot started