How TCP segment size can affect application traffic flow

1 · Walmart Labs · July 24, 2019, 6:17 a.m.
Photo credit: https://pixabay.com/Whilst migrating our firewall infrastructure, a HTTPS connection to a payment vendor failed and we had to roll back the activity. I’m not going to lie, it was disappointing having spent all that time planning and to not have a working solution at the end of the day. Such is technology, it doesn’t always work as expected. But when things go wrong, you are presented with excellent learning opportunities!Let’s start with some TCP concepts before looking at the pack...