Summary
In this chapter, you studied the OSI reference model to understand the different layers of a network and the various protocols available for each layer. You also learned that the various protocols can be grouped into two main groups: TCP and UDP.
Then, you learned about web browser development tools, which allow you to monitor your website’s activities, such as memory usage and network traffic. You also saw the errors it raises via the console window. This can help identify problems and resolve them.
From there, you learned how to add gRPC for desktop clients and servers, and gRPC-Web for web-based clients and servers. You learned that gRPC helps reduce the size of data compared to the JSON data format, thus reducing page load time.
After that, you learned how to optimize internet resources. This includes using the correct file format and reducing the size of images, caching items to reduce network traffic and load times, reducing the number of background services...
