Dev - network programming

Networks 101

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/compendium/network-protocols

Day in the life of a packet - Linux network stack

https://github.com/leandromoreira/linux-network-performance-parameters

Optimizations to consider

Disable Nagle / TCP_NODELAY for most apps

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html

Disable slow start after idle

https://ably.com/blog/optimizing-global-message-transit-latency-a-journey-through-tcp-configuration

Protocols beyond TCP/IP

QUIC

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645323

Homa, High performance for data center

https://lwn.net/Articles/914030/

Network programming

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/

• in C

Tools

netem

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tc-netem.8.html

https://www.5snb.club/posts/2024/making-your-connection-bad/

https://web.archive.org/web/20190410224615/https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/networking/netem#how_can_i_use_netem_on_incoming_traffic

Proxy to change connection quality

https://github.com/Shopify/toxiproxy

Simulate real-world network connections

https://github.com/tylertreat/comcast

See also

• IPv6
• network congestion control
• data center networks