Learn the HTTP Protocol in Go
"From TCP to HTTP". Build an HTTP/1.1 server from scratch in Golang. To understand truly HTTP, you should build it yourself.
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ThePrimeagen
ThePrimeagen spent 10 years at Netflix writing performance critical software. He has become deeply passionate about building developer tools and teaching others how to use them. He only codes in NeoVim, uses a split keyboard, and rebases his Git branches. And yes, he has a beautiful wife and children.
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What will you learn?
The web is built on HTTP, and there's no better way to understand how something works than to implement it yourself. In this course, we'll learn the nitty-gritty details of the HTTP/1.1 protocol, and as we do so we'll actually build our own HTTP server from scratch in Golang. By the end, you'll have a deep understanding of how web transport works.
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brace yourself for some challenges and excruciating debugging - but after the course, headers and ch...
M R
Germany
Very impressed at how a boring topic like this could actually be fun. If you are reading this, just ...
Candy Tsai
Taiwan
Excellent course. Super informative. A bit hard, though, but very very interesting.
Néstor Aponte
Spain
awesome resources
jesus enrique quesada diaz
Colombia
Very Very good course. I was blown away several times by it. I learnt so much and it was so much fun...
Kwabena Darkwa Obeng-Yeboah
Lenton, Nottingham
great experience -agen
Aleksa Elezovic
Serbia
1) Really helps to understand the inner workings of http/1.1. The course is quite interesting 2) Con...
Paul Waters
Netherlands
10/10 really challenging course that will push you out of your comfort zone !
Maxime Bourret
Montreal
Learning the internals is very crucial. I really enjoyed the course. Primeagen while at it again mad...
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Kenya
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