Socket Based Protocols
Explore the fundamentals of socket-based protocols and their role in distributed system stability. Understand connection failures, TCP/IP networking, and handshake procedures that affect system reliability and communication.
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Socket layer
Many higher-level integration protocols run over sockets. In fact, pretty much everything except named pipes and shared-memory IPC is socket-based. The higher protocols introduce their own failure modes, but they’re all susceptible to failures at the socket layer.
Connection failures
The simplest failure mode occurs when a remote system refuses connections. The calling system must deal with connection failures.
Usually, this isn’t much of a problem, since everything from C to Java to Elm has clear ways to indicate a connection failure either an exception in languages that have them or ...