Home / System Designing / 06. System Designing / 03. Networking Internet Fundamentals Networking Internet Fundamentals¶ The chapters in this module, in reading order. # Chapter 00 Networking and Internet Fundamentals — The Five-Year-Old Version 01 Internet Request Lifecycle — from URL bar to painted pixels 02 DNS Deep Dive — how the internet's phone book really answers 03 TCP and UDP — reliable registered mail versus quick postcards 04 TLS and HTTPS — sealing the letter and trusting the sender 05 HTTP Versions — three generations of internet envelopes 06 REST, gRPC, and GraphQL Protocols — three ways to pack the same message 07 Load Balancing at Network Level — one smart sorting center, many backend branches 08 CDN and Edge — storing popular content at nearby postal branches 09 WebSockets, SSE, and Long Polling — keeping the mailbox open for live updates 10 VPC and Private Networking — your cloud's private postal colony 11 Network Debugging — opening envelopes at every hop 12 Rate Limiting at Network Layer — when the post office must say enough 13 Honest Admission — where networking still humbles confident engineers