Mehdi Akiki

Posts tagged "linux"

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    Article · Through the layers

    WebSockets From the Wire Up

    Most WebSocket tutorials start at the API. This one starts at the wire — electrons, NIC interrupts, kernel socket buffers, the TCP state machine, the HTTP upgrade handshake, the binary frame format — and works up to what ws.send() actually does.
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    Learn multiple methods to identify and stop processes occupying a specific port, using commands like `lsof`, `ss`, and `fuser`, especially when standard tools aren’t available.