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sequence-numbers
- Sep 18, 2026 Multipath TCP and the Data-Level Sequence Space How MPTCP separates a 64-bit connection-level byte counter from the 32-bit per-subflow counters, why the mapping needs a signal option, and what reordering costs. networking
- Jun 11, 2025 Deriving a Change Feed from Immutable Snapshots How a table format turns the difference between two snapshots into a stream of inserted and deleted rows, which changes it cannot recover, and why ordering must come from sequence numbers. data engineering
- May 13, 2024 The RTP Fixed Header: Twelve Bytes That Carry a Media Stream What each field of the 12-byte RTP header means, why sequence numbers and timestamps are independent, and which failures the design accepts to stay small. internet protocols
- Dec 15, 2021 Sequence Numbers and the Sliding Window Arithmetic How a 32-bit byte counter replaces per-byte bookkeeping, why the window variables are indices into a modular sequence space, and where the arithmetic breaks. networking