Engineering Foundations

Networking, HTTP, core reliability vocabulary, and backend fundamentals every engineer needs first.

Lessons

1. How to Use This Learning Platform
2. Latency vs Throughput vs Bandwidth
3. DNS — Domain Name System Resolution and Caching
4. Java Interview Walkthrough
5. Gossip Protocol — Epidemic Membership and State Spread
6. Process vs Thread — Isolation and Shared Memory
7. Payments Interview Cheatsheet
8. HTTP and HTTPS — How the Web Speaks
9. IP Addresses — How Machines Find Each Other
10. Leader Election — Picking One Coordinator
11. Load Balancing — Algorithms and Layers
12. Long Polling vs WebSockets — Realtime Over HTTP
13. OSI Model — Seven Layers as a Debugging Map
14. Proxy vs Reverse Proxy — Who Hides Whom

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Shubham Jain · Learning Lab