Inside the Internet of Things - Bryon Moyer Blog
[From the last episode: We looked at the request/response way of handling machine communications.] As we wind down our discussion on communications, there are a few straggling issues that also cross over into the computing area. Today we look at the notion of load balancing. This is a topic that […]
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[From the last episode: We saw how one can send messages to select groups of multiple receivers using multicast or publish-and-subscribe.] Last week, when discussing publish-and-subscribe (pub/sub), we saw how a broker can either push messages out to all subscribers or simply give the subscribers the info they need to […]
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[From the last episode: We saw how we can broadcast a message to everyone in some network domain.] We’ve seen how to send a unicast message to just one place, and we’ve seen how to spam – er – flood an entire domain with a single broadcast message. But what […]
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[From the last episode: We looked at unicast, sending a message from a source to a single destination.] From the one-to-one messaging we saw last week, we move to its logical opposite: one to all, or even all to all. This is called broadcast since “all” receivers will get it, […]
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[From the last episode: We questioned whether machines should inevitably make decisions that humans make today.] We looked before at how we send messages as packets, and how big messages may need multiple packets. We’ll now spend a few weeks looking at how we can send messages to one or […]
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