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http://www.jaggedverge.com/2017/11/how-a-web-page-request-makes-it-down-to-the-metal/ How a web page request makes it down to the metal by : Janis Posted in : Tutorials, work-in-progess Tags : #NGINX, #Python No Comments The other day I was interested in how many steps occur between sending a #POST or #GET#request from a website to the actual processing that happens on the CPU of the #server. I figured that I knew bits and pieces of the puzzle but I wanted to see the complete path from the highest levels of abstraction all the way to the lowest without missing anything too big in-between. It turns out that in a modern web system there are a lot of steps. I have been really fascinated by this much like the explorer that wants to find a path from one known place to another. If you are interested in better understanding how your computer works you might find walking along this path with your tech stack helpful. Frontend prelude: GET request Browser page #rendering POST request sidenote: #CSRF#token Network stack sidenote: The Internet #TCP sidenote: more comprehensive treatment of network stack Backend Handling web request #WSGI #Django Django URL routing Django views Python implementations #CPython CPython bytecode CPython bytecode execution details Machine Code CPython to machine code Machine code execution Hardware implementation details Microcode Processor #pipeline Silicon implementation of addition Silicon adder unit AND gate Transistor