Month: February 2019

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Allocating the Airwaves

By Bryon Moyer | February 22, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: we looked at different styles of programming for IoT devices as well as a couple of communications protocols that follow one or the other approach.] Wireless communication can be a complex business. We’re going to be looking into it in more detail in the future, but […]

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Detail abstraction

IoT Programming: High or Low-Level?

By Bryon Moyer | February 15, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: we looked at the notion of idempotence and why it matters for the IoT] Here’s a question: if IoT devices are going to talk to each other and the cloud, they have to do so based on some kind of rules. Like, “If the temperature falls […]

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Idempotence

When It’s Safe to Do It Again

By Bryon Moyer | February 8, 2019 | 0 Comments

[From the last episode: we saw how load balancing helps servers keep up with high traffic demands.] Today we give you a million-dollar new vocabulary word (with an extra bonus if you already knew it). Before we give it away, however, let’s run through a couple of scenarios to illustrate […]

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Load balancing

Balancing the Load

By Bryon Moyer | February 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

[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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