Is there a Limit to Number TCP Connections a Backend can handle?
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Someone asked me a question and I felt its interesting to make a video about, is there a limit to the maximum number of TCP connections a Client can make to the server? If there is what is it? and how does that make sense in all the configurations?
0:00 Intro
1:00 Is there a Max Connection Limit?
4:30 64K Connection Limit Explained
7:20 Max Connections on Reverse Proxies and Max Connections
14:30 How does Router get around Max Connections?
7:00 3 million whatsapp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5o4wPvUXg
10:25 envoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40gKzHQWgP0&
12:50 google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUiBVTcgvBU
14:00 Active Active https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Bfi5qywFo
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