The Real Hidden Cost of a Request

Explore the hidden costs of sending a request from the frontend to the backend, including performance implications and challenges in determining backend capacity. Dive into the intricacies of handling requests in the backend, such as establishing connections, data decryption, parsing requests, and hidden complexities. Understand the process of parsing and decoding a request in backend engineering, including challenges with binary protocols, the cost of serialization and deserialization, importance of byte representation, and potential for splitting CPU-heavy tasks.