LI_S02E68_Missing_link

This episode - aptly named "Missing link" and part of our foundations series of our highly valued educational sub-Inlaws (a marketing term blatantly borrowed from Reddit when it was still relevant but conveniently always forgotten to give back) - dives deep into the innards of computer systems, networks and distributed applications. Discussing the communication mechanism these components use to be precisely to wrack havoc on innocent users, clients, servers and other shenanigans naively using these. So you've missed that all-important third-year operating and/or distributed systems class back in university, now's the chance to catch up on things. So that the next cocktail conversation doesn't have to be about the shortcomings of certain US presidents, open marriages, the weather and other strange phenomena including vampires turned priests in order to gain the upper hand on vegan blood wholesale empires (blatant teaser for an upcoming DSTS episode perhaps? :-). Links IPC (abridged version): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication Socket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket Unix Domain Socket (UDS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_domain_socket Non-uniform memory access (NUMA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_memory_access Signal: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html Message queues: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_queue Remote procedure call (RPC): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call gRPC: https://grpc.io Protocol buffers (Protobuf): https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf Interface definition language (IDL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_description_language D-Bus: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/IntroductionToDBus D-Spy (D-Bus inspection tool): https://github.com/GNOME/d-spy Component Object Model (COM): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/component-object-model--com--portal Distributed COM (DCOM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Component_Object_Model Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_Architecture Object Management Group (OMG): https://www.omg.org Cross Platform Component Object Model (XPCOM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPCOM Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP Representational State Transfer (REST): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST Flatbuffers: https://flatbuffers.dev Model Context Protocol (MCP): https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/getting-started/intro The Copenhagen Test: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31314791 SFSCon: https://www.sfscon.it