Tyler Leeds is a network engineer for Automattic. He works as a member of a small team that manages a massive network, responsible for a massive portion of the entire web. He and Rudy Faile, a coworker of Tyler's, community member, and former podcast guest, join us in this episode to dig into the guts of how networking works at a lower level. We discuss both the technical and human aspects of how the Internet comes together, and what that means for software developers.

Tyler was kind enough to provide a practical example of a BGP update (which we discuss in the podcast) in action for us to check out: https://handmade.network/static/media/podcast/hmn/bgp_example.txt

https://www.cisco.com/

https://automattic.com/

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/asn/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_area_network

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/routing-information-protocol-rip/13769-5.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/13753-25.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering