Why IPv6 Adoption Took Decades (And What Finally Changed)
A quarter-century protocol migration reveals how incentive structures matter more than technical readiness
Network Segmentation: Limiting Blast Radius by Design
How architectural boundaries transform catastrophic breaches into contained incidents
Software-Defined Networking: Separating Brain from Body
How centralizing network intelligence enables programmable infrastructure while introducing new engineering challenges
OSPF Link-State Routing: Building Network Maps at Scale
How enterprise routers build identical network maps and compute paths independently through link-state database synchronization
How Content Delivery Networks Rewrite Internet Geography
CDN architecture turns global content delivery into local data retrieval through strategic caching, intelligent routing, and origin protection.
How Packet Capture Works at Wire Speed
When millions of packets arrive every second, standard interfaces break down and engineering begins
The Engineering Behind Load Balancers That Never Drop Connections
Master the stateful engineering techniques that let production systems deploy continuously without dropping a single client connection
How QUIC Redesigned Transport for the Modern Internet
Why HTTP/3 abandoned TCP: the transport protocol rebuilt for encrypted, mobile-first connections that survive network switches without missing a beat.
How BGP Actually Decides Where Your Packets Go
Discover why internet routing follows business relationships and policy decisions more than network topology or performance metrics
How Ethernet Switches Actually Forward Frames
Inside the hardware pipeline that makes microsecond forwarding decisions across millions of frames without breaking a sweat
TCP Congestion Control: Engineering Fairness Under Pressure
How TCP's distributed algorithms transform competitive chaos into cooperative bandwidth sharing across billions of simultaneous flows
Inside IP Anycast: One Address, Many Servers
How BGP turns one IP address into a globally distributed service that routes users to the nearest server automatically.
Why DNS Still Works After 40 Years
How hierarchical delegation, aggressive caching, and extension mechanisms enabled a 1983 protocol to scale from thousands of hosts to trillions of daily queries.
Why Network Address Translation Broke the Internet (And Fixed It)
How a temporary IPv4 fix created permanent architectural constraints that still shape every networked application you build today.