
An HTTP request journey to the Backend | Backend Engineering Show
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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Can You Handle This?
It depends on he maximum segment size and the window size that we have been agreed upon. This is called the t c p. Slow start. You start slow. And then if you sense, if the back end actually can handle more, it will increase the segment size and you can send more, more data. So let's say i can only send x amount of segments, right? And my request is two big. So i have to break it into four segments, eh? As a start. Now, four segments. Here's where the algorithms kicks in.
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