The Journey of a Request to the Backend
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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The TCP Layer in the Kernel
For each connection that you create, you're going to get a receive queue where the bytes will arrive from the client. The kernel identifies these four pairs essentially map to a unique connection. It's all pointers. All the TCP stuff is done by the kernel. That was work done long time ago to actually move the TCP layer down to the kernel as opposed from the kernel space.
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