Earlier today, I was in an interview for a frontend engineering role when the interviewer asked a seemingly simple question: “Can you explain the difference between a PUT and a PATCH request?” I froze… Despite having made hundreds, probably thousands of API calls throughout my career, most of them using GET and POST, I realized […]

It’s one of those classic interview questions, and honestly, it’s a fun one too: what actually happens when you type google.com into your browser and press enter? The answer isn’t just “the website loads.” Under the hood, there’s a whole series of steps, some happening in microseconds, that make the web work like magic. Let’s