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#reliability
2 articles
Networks & the Internet
Load Balancers and Reverse Proxies
One server has a ceiling and a single point of failure. Reverse proxies and load balancers turn many fragile machines into one fast, reliable service by spreading load and health-checking around failures.
10 minJul 18, 2026
Networks & the Internet
TCP: Reliability on an Unreliable Network
IP loses, duplicates and reorders packets and promises to fix none of it. TCP turns that mess into a perfect ordered byte stream — entirely at the two endpoints, without ever changing the network in between.
10 minJul 6, 2026