In a world dominated by HTTP APIs and request-response services, we often take for granted the underlying networking technologies that make the modern Web possible, such as TCP and UDP.

In this talk we're going to learn how to harness the power of socket programming to build applications that are real-time, stateful, and capable of inter-operating across operating systems and devices. We're going to use the latest .NET Core APIs for working with zero-copy memory structures such as Span and Memory to make these applications fast, and we're going to apply socket programming best practices such as message framing and pipelining to make reads and writes performant.