3 docs tagged with "networking"

Learn about client-server architecture, a foundational model for designing distributed systems where clients request services and servers provide responses.

Compare Long Polling, Short Polling, and WebSockets for real-time client-server communication. Understand the trade-offs in latency, overhead, and use cases for pushing data and building responsive web applications.

Explore the fundamentals of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) architecture, its benefits, challenges, and common use cases. Understand how P2P systems enable decentralized communication and resource sharing without central servers.