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The Journey of a Request to the Backend

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

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How to Decrypt Encrypted Requests

If things were not encrypted, right, we're probably going to be almost done here. But if it's unencrypted, yeah, we can start the process of parsing the protocol and finding our request - but not yet. So that's another thing you can investigate and invest in and understand the architecture of multiple readers. node.js is a one acceptor, one reader, right? Model, because it's a single thread. And everything happens in that thread. Literally, unless you you do asynchronous work, then multiple threads will be used. The fundamentals do not change. If there's a fire, there must be smoke. Right.

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