Wireshark For Developers: A Trip From Applications to Packets and Back

We all basically understand what it means to build Internet-aware applications. But somewhere at the intersection of architecture, application development, protocols and networking, things get a little fuzzy. One of the most widely-used tools in the networking world doesn’t see as much use as it could in the software development world.

We will cover:

  • The Internet’s Architecture and how it delegates functionality and evolves
  • Networking Basics
  • A packet-oriented walk through the Web stack
  • How to capture, visualize and analyze application traffic
  • How Wireshark can be used to identify performance and bandwidth issues
  • How packet analysis can help identify security threats

Come see how you can improve your development skills by understanding more about networking.


Brian Sletten

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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