Inside the Internet of Things - Bryon Moyer Blog
[From the last episode: Protocols are ways of doing things. Electronic protocols let multiple systems agree on how to do something so that they can work together.] Anyone can come up with a protocol and get at least some people to agree to it. As long as everyone that matters […]
Read More[From the last episode: Even something as simple as a bit can be implemented numerous ways. Getting things to work means getting agreement on details, which, in the simplest cases, are called conventions.] If dealing with a simple bit can be messy, then imagine how much more complex it is […]
Read More[From the last episode: Communications are organized as a stack, with each layer of the stack providing specific to the layers above it.] With the help of stacks, we can understand what’s going on at a high level. But when it comes to detail, there are literally an uncountable number […]
Read More[From the previous episode: we can create a stack that describes how a paper report can get from one office to another.] Last week, we saw a stack describing how we might deliver a paper report to someone in another office. Of course, we’ve invented that stack, just to get […]
Read More[From the previous episode: It takes a lot of participants to get a report from your desk to a colleague’s desk in another city.] In the last blog, we saw how physically delivering an interoffice memo can involve a large number of tasks. And those tasks can be handled independently […]
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