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UDP versus TCP

UDP versus TCP

Owned by Eliot Muir
Sept 24, 2021
1 min read

UDP does not guarantee that data will be received.

TCP can be thought of as a layer of abstraction on top of UDP which guarantees order of delivery - so under the hood there has to be retry logic etc.

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