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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Scalable Streaming Video with Amit Mishra
Description: The internet is a layer cake of technologies and protocols. At a fundamental level, the internet runs on the TCP/IP protocol. It’s a packet based system. When your browser requests a file from a web server, that server chops up the file into tiny pieces known as packets and puts them on the network labeled with your machine’s address as its destination.That system works incredibly well for receiving a file from a web server. If some of the packets arrive out of order, that’s not a problem. If one is lost, it can be sent...