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The Journey of a URL — What Actually Happens Between Pressing Enter and Seeing a Page
You type a URL and press Enter every day, but what actually happens in between? This post uses gu-log as a real-world case study to walk you through 7 floors — from DNS to Service Worker — covering the full journey of a URL.
Redis Is More Than Just a Cache: Don't Drive a Ferrari to Buy Groceries
Most developers know Redis as a cache. But using Redis only as a cache is like buying a Ferrari just to drive to the grocery store. Redis isn't a cache that happens to be fast — it's a data structure server that happens to be great at caching.