Month: December 2018

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Brains in the Loop

By Bryon Moyer | December 28, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We looked at how long messages might need to be broken up into multiple packets to be sent and reassembled later.] Today we do one of our occasional departures from the narrative to look at a -event situation. The particular event that spurred this is the […]

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Fragmentation

Fragmentation: When a Message is Too Big

By Bryon Moyer | December 21, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw how a packet comes together, with the original message as the payload and then the other and bobs that get added on as it moves through the stack.] We saw how to send a message in a packet last week. But, depending on the […]

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Moving packet

How Packets Move

By Bryon Moyer | December 14, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw how we can build a packet out of a simple message.] Now that we’ve built the basics of a packet, let’s send that packet on its way to see how it changes as it goes. Because we’ve started at the application layer of our […]

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Packets

By Bryon Moyer | December 14, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We saw that messages are at the heart of machine-to-machine communication.] OK, so we know that, in order to say something to another machine, a machine must send a message. But what, exactly, is a message? First of all, there’s no one answer to that. It’s […]

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Message

Electronic Messages

By Bryon Moyer | December 7, 2018 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: We reviewed the various communications concepts we’ve looked at so far, in preparation for a more in-depth discussion.] How do machines talk to each other? You could say that they do it by talking to each other in a way that’s inspired by how we humans […]

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