Fundamentals of Network Engineering

Understanding the first principles of networking to build low latency and high throughput backends

Created by: Hussein Nasser
Software Engineer, Author

What Will I Learn?

• IP Protocol
• TCP Protocol
• UDP Protocol
• Understand the circumstances where requests and responses are slowed down
• Learn how DNS works
• Learn how TLS works
• Learn the building blocks of TCP/IP Protocol
• Learn the OSI Model and where your application fits in it
• Understand the performance impact of TCP/IP in Backend applications
• Make better decisions on what protocol to select for the Backend
• Build and Design better TCP/UDP Backends
• Use Wireshark to inspect traffic
• Use TCPDUMP to inspect traffic
• Build TCP and UDP Servers with multiple languages (Javascript and C)
• Networking with Docker

Requirements

• Basic programming experience
• Recommended: Having built a backend application

Target audience

• Backend engineers
• Frontend engineers who are interested to start building Backend apps
• Full stack engineers
• DevOps engineers
• Site reliability engineers