#Networking

The google.com Interview Answer Is Years Out of Date

QUIC, DNS-over-HTTPS, and TLS 1.3 quietly rewrote the request path most engineers still recite.

Article · 1w ago6

Reticulum Outgrew Its Creator, and That's the Point

The cryptography-first mesh stack survived its maintainer logging off — here's what that means for anyone building on it.

Article · 1w ago0

Build a Self-Hosted WireGuard VPN with Split Tunneling

Stand up WireGuard on a cheap Ubuntu VPS, split-tunnel your traffic, and manage peers with zero downtime.

Tutorial · 2w ago0

Wireblast pushes 135M packets a second from one Go binary

Andree Toonk's AF_XDP traffic generator hits 100G line rates without DPDK, hugepages, or NIC exorcisms.

Article · 3w ago0

KNOD Wants to Turn Your AMD GPU Into a DPU

New RFC patches let the Linux kernel JIT-compile packet programs straight onto GPU silicon, with no ROCm required.

Article · 1mo ago0

MikroTik Makes LLM Network Ops Practical

JSON APIs and L2 recovery paths turn agentic config into a junior-engineer workflow you can actually run.

Article · 1mo ago2

Zero Trust Remote Access to Your Home Lab with Tailscale

Replace your open SSH port with a private WireGuard mesh, then lock port 22 down for good.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

Deconstructing the Network: Systems Design From First Principles

Understanding the physical and logical constraints of packet-switched networks helps developers build more resilient distributed systems.

Article · 1mo ago0

Demystifying USB-C Complexity Through a 10G Ethernet Lens

The WisdPi 10G Ethernet module for Framework laptops illustrates why physical ports and protocol layers are often worlds apart.

Article · 2mos ago0

Give Your Local Dev Server a Stable Public HTTPS URL with Cloudflare Tunnel

Use a named Cloudflare Tunnel to expose localhost over HTTPS on your own domain — no port forwarding, no firewall rules, no certificate wrangling.

Tutorial · 2mos ago0

Why DNS Breaks Inside Kubernetes on AWS

How ndots defaults, NodeLocal DNS, and EC2's hard packet limits conspire to break your cluster's name resolution.

Article · 2mos ago0

Anatomy of a 27-Year-Old OpenBSD Authentication Bypass

A simple validation omission in OpenBSD's PPP stack shows how easily decoupled memory bounds can compromise system security.

Article · 2mos ago0

HTTP Requests Without Curl: The Bash /dev/tcp Trick

Learn how to fire raw HTTP requests using Bash's built-in TCP pseudo-device in stripped-down container environments.

Article · 2mos ago0

Iroh 1.0 Wants You to Dial Keys, Not IP Addresses

The Rust networking stack hits its first stable release with QUIC NAT traversal, wire-protocol stability, and official Python, Node, Swift, and Kotlin bindings.

Release · 2mos ago2

The Mathematical Journey to Flat Datacenter Networks

From 1970s expander graphs to Penrose tiling, cloud architects are rethinking how we route packets at scale.

Article · 2mos ago0