From HTTP Requests to CPU Cycles
Below is a long-form, end-to-end technical blog post, written as if for experienced developers who want to truly understand how computers run networked applications. It’s conceptual, precise, and practical, not academic fluff. From HTTP Requests to CPU Cycles: A Practical Mental Model of Computer Systems Modern software often hides the machine behind layers of abstraction: frameworks, runtimes, containers, cloud platforms. This is powerful — but it also creates blind spots. ...