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Dec 2021
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The Journey of an HTTP request to the Ba...

Hussein Nasser
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In this episode of the backend engineering show, I explain the journey of an HTTP request that gets initiated from a click on a link. I discuss DNS, TCP, API Gateways, reverse proxies, load balancers, backend web servers, and much more.

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