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03
How VLC plays it?
What really happens between dropping a video file onto VLC and the first frame lighting up your screen — the container, the demuxer, the decoder, two independent output pipelines, and the master clock that keeps them in step.
02
How Wireshark sees it?
What really happens between a packet hitting your network card and one dissected row appearing on screen — dumpcap, the pcap_dispatch pump, the dissector chain, tvbuff bounds checks, wmem pools.
01
How curl GETs it?
What really happens between you entering a curl command and the bytes landing in your terminal — DNS, TCP, TLS, the recv loop and everything in between.
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More walkthroughs coming soon
nginx, redis, sqlite and the rest of the stack — one tool at a time. Subscribe via the blog to catch the next one.