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BBR, the new kid on the TCP block
A look at Google's delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm, called BBR.
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OpenBSD: How it all started
OpenBSD remains a crucial yet largely unacknowledged player in the open-source field.
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A transport protocol's view of Starlink
How TCP interacts with the characteristics of the Starlink service.
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TCP Fast Open? Not so fast
As TCP becomes more important to DNS, overhead is becoming an issue.
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21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
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End-to-end congestion control cannot avoid latency spikes (2022)
What are the fundamental limits of end-to-end congestion control in 5G networks?
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What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter
Useful and fun features related to the OpenBSD packet filter.
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Tcpls: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS
Guest Post: TCPLS takes advantage of decades of performance optimizations made to TCP and has also a few other tricks up its sleeves.