What ACTUALLY Happens When You Type a URL google.com
"If you’ve ever interviewed for a software engineering role, you’ve probably been asked: 'What happens when you type google.com into a browser and press Enter?'
Most developers give the standard textbook answer: Your browser looks up the IP via DNS, opens a TCP connection, sends an HTTP GET request, and renders the HTML.
While that answer might pass a Junior interview, it completely ignores the complex systems engineering happening under the hood. In reality, within less than 100 milliseconds, your operating system kernel, network interface card, BGP routers, TLS cryptographic primitives, and global edge networks execute a synchronized choreography involving dozens of low-level protocols.
Welcome back to Behind the Abstraction. Today, we’re upgrading the classic interview question to the Senior Engineer Edition. Let's strip away the browser magic and trace every single packet from your keyboard to Google’s data centers."
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