How The Web Works - The Big Picture

From request to response - how does the web work? Let's have a look at a high-level overview.
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It's really refreshing to have someone explain things in a slowed down way without excess takes

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Thanks so much for your fantastic feedback Abidul, this really means a lot to me!

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It is great to have a big picture that joins up all the bits and pieces that I have gathered over the years into a coherent framework that a non-dev can understand.

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Wonderful content! Seriously, I finally could understand how web works. I’m a visual learner and the graphics helps a lot!!!

[@EugeniaChe]

Always useful to solidify basics’ knowledge. Thank you for this video Max!

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[@mmohammed7031]

Very succinct explanation of the basics. A great starting point to teach people about the mechanics of a webpage.

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Bro, i have been watching different videos so far since am a self-taught, but i have never watched a video like this, it is nice and clear. i just wanna say keep it up brother. do more videos. Thank You!

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This is the best explanation I've seen so far

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i enjoy every time when i see your videos even if i know the content

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Interesting, this is also great for us who are already developers but don't have a full picture of how it works.. you're the man, I love your videos, keep up the good work

[@academind]

Happy to read that Javier, thanks a lot for your comment!

[@angelinagokhale9309]

Thank you so much Maximilian! Really appreciate the details you were able to cover up in just 12min. I shall go through your article and will check up the Udemy courses too. Thank you once again!

[@ryan_alive]

Fantastic. Love the focus on the client-server principle.

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

"How The Web Works" Little pixies and leprechauns read what you write on the URL bar and then run in a big room and return on your screen with what you look for and half of them stand and show you what you wrote on the URL bar and the others hop around holding advertisements. Until suddenly your parents burst into your room and you realise you didn't mute the computer.

[@k8ehops]

Thanks so much for this! It's a exactly what you said at the end- a lot of this I knew vaguely and this finally gave me a solid deeper understanding of how it works, thanks so much for this! :)

[@CODINGISEASY]

*A nice overview thanks!*

[@mohajjarr]

Thank you for that! I'm starting new and this gave me a huge knowledge boost therefore I know some of the stuff you said but well done thank you so much.

[@alanlado1602]

Thank you for this amazing video, Max! The concepts are now clearer in my mind. I needed to learn how this works 'cause I'm learning how to use APIs in Python. You do an amazing job!

[@fahadullah3633]

Amazing explanation.. I love it. I never studied it and now i know how the client-server model works.

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The best explanation I've seen about this topic so far. Great work, dude!

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core idea 11:30 love that. very helpful vid covering tyhe basics. thanks and subbed

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Great video... Stumbled on you trying to find out more about AWS. Simplified some grey areas for me. Thank you

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Great to hear!

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This was such a great video, well done man, very helpful!

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I just discovered your channel. Great explanation!

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the best video on how web works that I've ever seen

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Amazing video, sir!! It's the most clear video explaining the entire process of how web works. Thank you so much sir for this video🙏🏻🙏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻.Do keep making such videos.

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Best video on web i have ever watched. Thank you for such amazing content..

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Knowing how the web works should be one of the first things what an upcoming web developer should learn. Thanks for the video!

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I liked the video as soon as I saw the AirMax's. However, the content was great too thanks!

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I do indeed like them, yes :)

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🤣🤣.

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it seems you are interested in everything except the actual message in video 😭

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@@bhargavikommineni6970 that's called multitasking bro 😅

[@georgesmith3022]

in the middle of the user pc and the server there are many routers, firewalls, switches, load balancers, ips etc. the packet travels hop by hop and in each step changes mac address. the ip header stays the same. usually the server will be behind a firewall. firewalls will also change ip header (nat) and check application data to see if there is a danger. after the firewall there is usually a load balancer like f5 or radware. the load balancer will balance requests to a farm of servers. sometimes the load balancer does also the https decryption, that is the certificate is installed on the load balancer and not on the server.

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Hey Max, you are absolutely great! I am learning web development alongside my main job (also found your Udemy courses!), and you are making it so much more engaging, interesting and fun! This was a great intro, which I wish I would have found much earlier :p Keep up the good work and thank you so much!

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Thank you very much for this awesome feedback and support Max!

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much clearer ! Thanks !

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Known all this stuff before, but still interesting to watch.

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Thank you. Now I know which to learn

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Awesome video! nice and crisp

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Excellent explanation, made simple to understand

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Awesome. Thank you!

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Awesome! Thank you!

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Great Video, Learnt a lot, thanks so much love from Pakistan!

[@onderinozu9433]

Honestly, I havent understood the terms of DNS,IP,HTTPS,REQUEST-RESPONSE completely, at least till now. You clarified them such a simple way. People generally focus on the details too much but cant show the big picture and that's why you feel like "lost" when someone uses a term such DNS,HTTPS etc . Thanks for this straightforward expo and I hope you will continue to explain such details in your following videos.

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It's so great to read that the video made things clearer for you. Another video which kind of follows this style will be released today :)

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This is a great video for a beginner who wants to know how internet works. This was exactly what i was looking for. Thank you for the upload.

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Thank you so much it really helped a lot

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excellent explanation on how web works. thumbsup

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Learn a lot. Thanks.

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I indeed try to work on the content and presentation, things can always be improved! I do use the shoes, but not as running shoes to be honest :D

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for me as a starting web developer this was the most useful video I have ever watched

[@emarekica]

This was great, thank you!

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thanks i learned what html does and css

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Web assembly video, please! I think it introduces new opportunities on the web, I'm really looking forward to it!

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Thank you, I bought these btw, so no paid promotion or anything like that :)

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I'm very happy with the awesome support I get from you and so many others already to be honest! But of course it would be great to reach even more people but we'll see :)

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Thank you Max

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Found this video useful!

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nice explanation...

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awsome video man

[@vincesanchez7790]

Does the browser displays the page before JS file downloaded/executed, lets say the browser finished parsing the HTML file and CSS file?

[@eric1188311]

this is what people needs. The big picture. it helps knowing what to learn in web development

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Great help

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I happen to stumble upon this channel and that I really appreciate that you explained it in a very simple way for a person like me who has minimal idea about the web. Thanks again!

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I have been finding a video that explains to me how the web works and yours is the one that made me stop searching

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Thankyou po.

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Thank you so much your video was amazing.

[@animeshmishra4282]

If i am designing a backend for a website . So should i use json as response . Can javascript render it at the frontend to generate the content. What should be an industry standard for this type of development ???

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