Core to IP communications is the Socket. Sockets wed Clients and Servers across the bulk of Applications and use-cases.

Most are connection-oriented, vis-à-vis TCP. Traditionally, 'netstat' has been the de facto socket-expostion agent du jour. In more recent times, however, 'ss' has emerged and now favoured as an elevated socket-exposition agent. Know 'netstat', but also be equally amenable to the virtues of: 'ss'. Let's have a glance at 'ss' in this release.