Chapter 9, Enhancing the Performance of Networked Applications

1. Application layer, presentation layer, session layer, transport layer, network layer, data link layer, and physical layer.
2. HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SSL, DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, Telnet, SMTP, IMAP4, POP3, TCP, IP, UDP, Ethernet, and PPP.
3. TCP enables the transmitting and receiving of data that is guaranteed to be received. UDP only allows the transmission of data that is not guaranteed to be received.
4. Use the developer tools that are built into your browser.
5. gRPC is a cross-platform, cross-language, and cross-device framework for making remote procedure calls between applications. gRPC-Web is a proxy for browser-based RCP calls, as browser applications are unable to use gRPC directly.
6. Reduce the number of things the page is doing and the number of services the page calls. Reduce the size of images. Use file compression to reduce the size of files transmitted over a network. Cache network resources. Filter...