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The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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How Does Ingenex Pick Up a Connection From the Accept Queue?

Ingenex is responsible to get the connection from the accept queue, says, hey, I want this connection back. And then the client will reply back by an act, completing the three way handshake. So what happened here, eventually, one of the worker processes will pick up this connection and that connection will live in the worker process itself,. It's a file descriptor, we call it an integer value pointed to that connection. But regardless, we have a worker picked up a connection. Now it's ready to read stuff, right? And it's actually consumed the request. There's a big, big difference between a request and just a stream of bytes. That's where layer seven and

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