Build a framed TCP echo server and watch backpressure

Length-prefixed framing over a byte stream, partial reads and writes, and bounded buffering when a peer stops reading.

Not attemptedHands-on project (Beej's Guide as reference)Access: free

The exercise happens on Hands-on project (Beej's Guide as reference). Canonical link: https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/. Link check: link responded (5 Oct 2026). Opened from this app 0 times; opening is not counted as an attempt.

Supports: Backend, infrastructure and low-level roles; makes byte-stream semantics and flow control observable with ss.

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