You go to google.com, right? Nailed it.
There's a series of tubes involved, but mostly, yeah.
What happens when you type Google.com into your browser and press enter?
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#12This would be even cooler if you could expand a specific branch and continue going into further and further detail. IMO the TLS section would be one of the most interesting pieces, but it gets near-zero attention.
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#13Just by quick browsing I see missing a lot of network and server-side: what if name server doesn't have domain record, routing protocols (BGP), what happens when request hits Google on their side, there's load balancer for sure -how do they work-, there's probably CDN -how do they work, anycast etc-, there's HTTP to HTTPS redirect...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you gave this amount of detail during an interview, you would have one frustrated interviewer and not much time for anything else.
"What happens.... and give as much detail as you can" is how I phrase it. If the candidate tried to give this much detail, I'd stop them, congratulate them on their ability to Google, put a positive mark next to that and move on. Or not, as I've detected they're effectively plagiarising someone else's work. Depends on how far they go with it I suppose. It could go either way! That said, if I let them completely hijac…
> Or not, as I've detected they're effectively plagiarising someone else's work.
Ideally, if you're testing ability to research rather than domain-specific knowledge, they'd just send you a link to a really good explanation. No sense reinventing the wheel.
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#15Regarding the DNS lookup, i recently noticed Chromium (OS X latest versions) connects to Google's public DNS servers a lot, even though i have a (working) local DNS server defined in /etc/resolv.conf :/
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#16Would you really answer this way? Maybe they are trying to test communication skills, ie tell me what's only relevant. Can you imagine if you gave this answer to a product manager for a browser? Context people....
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#17Would you really answer this way? Maybe they are trying to test communication skills, ie tell me what's only relevant. Can you imagine if you gave this answer to a product manager for a browser? Context people....
Here's your context, good sir: This is, for intensive porpoises, a page trying to go into as much detail as possible on a very mundane task. No, Actual People (tm) would not answer that way - but going deeper down the stack than usual is considered a form of geek amusement.
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#19I hate this interview question. This question however would be a great intro to CS/CMPE in university, "What happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter....well you'll be able to answer `most` of that by the end of your PHD Dissertation."
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#20Cliche, but I've found this to be an amazing interview question for nontechnical positions. You learn quickly how much someone can hand wave and bullshit. If they are too cocky and can't say "I don't know", that's great to suss out up front. If it's for a sales role, maybe that's a good thing.