Software Foundations

Networking Machinery for Software Engineers Part 4: Rebuilding a Network Inside One Linux Machine

Build two sensor networks, connect their logical devices, and trace a supervisor request through routing and NAT in a hands-on Linux lab.

Oct 17 • Dmytro Huz

Networking Machinery for Software Engineers Part 3: Inside the Linux Networking Stack

Understanding how Linux receives and processes network traffic

Oct 3 • Dmytro Huz

Building Your Own Web Server — Part 4: Single-threaded non-blocking server

This article is part of Software Foundations, where I explore networking, protocols, operating systems, and software systems from first principles.

Sep 28 • Dmytro Huz

Building Your Own Web Server — Part 3: Blocking Single and Multithreaded Server

This article is part of Software Foundations, where I explore networking, protocols, operating systems, and software systems from first principles.

Sep 28 • Dmytro Huz

Building Your Own Web Server: Part 2 — Plan and Implementation of HTTP and Configuration parser

This article is part of Software Foundations, where I explore networking, protocols, operating systems, and software systems from first principles.

Sep 28 • Dmytro Huz

Building Your Own Web Server: Part 1 — Theory and Foundations

This article is part of Software Foundations, where I explore networking, protocols, operating systems, and software systems from first principles.

Sep 28 • Dmytro Huz

Building a Web Server from Scratch

This article is part of Software Foundations, where I explore networking, protocols, operating systems, and software systems from first principles.

Sep 28 • Dmytro Huz

Networking Machinery for Software Engineers Part 2: Extending The Empire and Rebuilding a Global Network

We pushed our kingdom beyond the horizon. To keep it connected, we had to extend our Signal Tower system with Layer 3: IP addresses, subnets, gateways…

Sep 2 • Dmytro Huz

Networking Machinery for Software Engineers Part 1: Rebuilding a Local Network with Medieval Signal Towers

How a ridiculous thought experiment leads to Ethernet frames, MAC addresses, switches, broadcast, and ARP.

Aug 28 • Dmytro Huz

Networking Machinery for Software Engineers

Building the networking foundation needed to understand substations, SCADA, industrial protocols, and software in the power grid.

Aug 27 • Dmytro Huz

Adding Homemade TLS to a Homemade Web Server

I combined my self-written web server and my self-written TLS project. The surprising part was how little the HTTP layer needed to know.

Jul 4 • Dmytro Huz

Rebuilding TLS, Part 4 - Certificates and Trust

How certificates close the man-in-the-middle gap

Apr 26 • Dmytro Huz

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