Top 5 resources to deepen your networking knowledge

Networking is one of the most complex topics in computer science. Although we might learn at college some of the details about the main protocols if we can't see them applied in real-world applications it'll be hard to comprehend how they work.

So these are my top 5 free resources to deepen your networking knowledge.

1. Start by reviewing the basics of TCP/IP and UPD. Gaffer on Games offers a series of 5 great posts about it.
2. Learn how to build solutions to scale the network systems for the masses. Patrick Shuff presents how Facebook's load balancer works.
3. Learn how to analyze network traffic for learning and debugging purposes and make sure to have usages examples in hand.
4. See how Network operates at real-world distributed applications like Kubernetes.
5. And learn where some of the network sysctl variables fit into the Linux/Kernel network flow.