Q: When architecting a new service, how do you decide between using TCP or UDP?
- TCP (Transmission Control Protocol): Is a connection-oriented, stateful protocol. It guarantees delivery through acknowledgments, autom...
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Initial Diagnostics & Root Cause Analysis
- TCP (Transmission Control Protocol): Is a connection-oriented, stateful protocol. It guarantees delivery through acknowledgments, automatically retransmits lost packets, and orders packets correctly. I would use TCP for HTTP/HTTPS, database queries, SSH, and any system where data integrity is paramount and dropping a single byte corrupts the entire file.
- UDP (User Datagram Protocol): Is a connectionless, stateless protocol. It "fires and forgets" packets with no delivery guarantees, no acknowledgments, and no retransmission. It is vastly faster with less overhead. I would use UDP for video streaming, VoIP calls, online multiplayer gaming, or fast metrics (like StatsD), where missing a single frame of video is acceptable, but waiting 500ms for a retransmission would ruin the real-time experience.
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Remediation & Permanent Safeguards
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- TCP (Transmission Control Protocol): Is a connection-oriented, stateful protocol. It guarantees d...
- UDP (User Datagram Protocol): Is a connectionless, stateless protocol. It "fires and forgets" pac...
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