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Ask HN: As a software engineer, how do I best learn basic network engineering?
3 by ksd482 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
Is there a "System Design Primer" equivalent for network engineering for application developers? In school I never took networking class and I never had to use any of the networking utilities/commands at job beyond a simple telnet to check of host/port is reachable. I have looked into youtube videos --- but they are all too abstract and tend to go into enough depth only many videos later. I have looked into coursera courses --- same deal as youtube videos. So, to summarize the problem with all these tutorials seems to be too much time commitment -- unfortunately I don't have that much time. Perhaps a good tutorial would be something that would be a hands-on tutorial based on several scenarios. Any advice? Thanks PS: it's embarrassing to admit I have more than 10 years of experience and I still don't know the basics of network engineering.

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