Nana Kwasi Asante

Software Engineer

Writing

Notes from therabbit holesI wander down.

Essays, notes, and the occasional multi-part series. Mostly about engineering, sometimes about the texture of building things.

Latest Building your own Nginx server· Part 1

Building Your Own Nginx — Part 1: The Shape of the Web

Setting the table — the client-server model, DNS, TCP, HTTP, reverse proxies, load balancers, and the smallest possible web server in Go.

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