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| ## Developer docs |
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| This section explains how driver internals work. The intended audience is: |
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| * driver developers and contributors; |
| * framework authors, or architects who want to write advanced customizations and integrations. |
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| Most of this material will involve "internal" packages; see [API conventions](../api_conventions/) |
| for more explanations. |
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| We recommend reading about the [common infrastructure](common/) first. Then the documentation goes |
| from lowest to highest level: |
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| * [Native protocol layer](native_protocol/): binary encoding of the TCP payloads; |
| * [Netty pipeline](netty_pipeline/): networking and low-level stream management; |
| * [Request execution](request_execution/): higher-level handling of user requests and responses; |
| * [Administrative tasks](admin/): everything else (cluster state and metadata). |
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| If you're reading this on GitHub, the `.nav` file in each directory contains a suggested order. |
