Building a Network Stack for our Browser Extension

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Engineering problems often repeat themselves in places you wouldn't expect. Sometimes the best solution has already been invented, in a different corner of the software engineering domain. 

In this talk, we show how and why we mirrored the TCP/IP network stack to solve a communication problem between different components of a browser extension.

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04 Apr, 2024
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