On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 12:17 PM Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > On 7/14/20 12:09 PM, William Herrin wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:12 PM Mehmet Akcin <meh...@akcin.net> wrote: > >> I am hosting a live show a few times a month about internet infrastructure > >> and today's topics were, your favorite questions asked network engineers - > >> you can watch the recording here > >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3pvikTrF0M > >> > >> if you have suggestions on topics to cover helping network operations > >> engineering that you want to see in here, please feel free to contact me > >> off-list, and let's create unique content that can be helpful to others. > > > > "What happens when you type www.google.com in your browser bar and hit > > enter?" is one of my favorite questions. Half the field of computing > > happens next. Keyboard interrupts fire. Bits are poked in dram, sram, > > maybe even tcam. Packets are sent. Fonts are composed into pixels. > > There's a crazy amount you can talk about and the right answer is: > > string things together in order for 5 or 10 minutes without getting > > anything horribly wrong. > > Oh, I thought this was a trick question of whether it takes you directly > to google, or does a search.
That's a good start. First thing the browser does decide whether that's a URL or a search question. How does it decide? And then what happens? I will prompt you to keep talking. After all, I'm rooting for you to succeed so that I can hire you. -Bill -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/