Networking
All articles
22 total
ARPANET New
The first operational packet-switched computer network and the direct …
History
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Ethernet New
The local area network technology that lets computers share one medium …
History
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Networked Email and the @ Sign (1971) New
How Ray Tomlinson's 1971 network email and the @ sign let people on …
History
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SSL and TLS: Encrypting the Web New
SSL and its successor TLS encrypt traffic between browsers and servers, …
History
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Client-Server Architecture
A distributed architecture where clients send requests to centralized …
Glossary
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DNS
Domain Name System
Glossary
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Firewalls and Network Security
Network security devices and techniques that control traffic flow …
Glossary
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HTTP and HTTPS
The foundational web protocols for transferring hypertext documents and …
Glossary
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IP Addressing and Subnetting
The system of numerical addresses used to identify devices on IP …
Glossary
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Load Balancer
What load balancers do, the types available on AWS, and how to choose …
Glossary
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NAT Gateway
What NAT gateways do, how they enable private subnet internet access, …
Glossary
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Network Protocols Overview
A survey of essential network protocols beyond TCP, UDP, and HTTP, …
Glossary
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OSI Model
The Open Systems Interconnection model, a seven-layer conceptual …
Glossary
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Routing and Switching
The fundamental network operations of forwarding data at Layer 2 …
Glossary
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Service Mesh
What a service mesh is, how it manages service-to-service communication, …
Glossary
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Subnet
What subnets are, how they segment VPC networks, and best practices for …
Glossary
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TCP and UDP
The two primary transport-layer protocols of the Internet: TCP provides …
Glossary
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TCP/IP Model
The four-layer Internet protocol suite that defines how data is …
Glossary
Added 28 Mar
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TLS/SSL
Transport Layer Security and its predecessor Secure Sockets Layer, …
Glossary
Added 28 Mar
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VPC
Virtual Private Cloud
Glossary
Added 28 Mar
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What is the Internet?
The internet is a global network of computers that have agreed to speak …
Basics
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Zero Trust Architecture
What zero trust means, how it replaces perimeter-based security, and why …
Glossary
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