Learn Zig Series (#94) - NAT Traversal and Hole Punching What will I learn? What a NAT actually is once you stop fearing it -- a box on your router that rewrites the source address and port of every packet

Learn Zig Series (#93) - SOCKS5 Proxy What will I learn? What a SOCKS5 proxy actually is once you strip the mystique away -- a tiny handshake, a one-shot connect request, and then dumb byte-copying in

Learn Zig Series (#92) - gRPC Service in Zig What will I learn? What gRPC actually is once you strip the branding away -- protobuf payloads, HTTP/2 transport, and one small calling convention bolted on

Learn Zig Series (#91) - MessagePack Format What will I learn? Why a self-describing binary format exists, and how it differs from the schema-driven protobuf we built last episode; How MessagePack packs

Learn Zig Series (#90) - Protocol Buffers Serialization What will I learn? Why a binary serialization format exists at all, and what protobuf buys you over hand-rolled byte layouts or JSON; How protobuf's

Learn Zig Series (#89) - MQTT Messaging Protocol What will I learn? Why MQTT exists, and what the publish/subscribe-through-a-broker model buys you over plain sockets; How the fixed header packs a packet

Learn Zig Series (#88) - WebSocket Server What will I learn? How a WebSocket connection lives and dies -- the handshaking, open, closing, closed state machine; How to perform the server-side upgrade by