Technical requirements

To appreciate this chapter, it will be useful to know something about enterprise networking, especially the importance of internet-related networking protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, and HTTP/S. You likely already know about these from the perspective of programming communication, where you use enterprise or Cloud-based data center services that you access through REST or WebSocket communication.

However, we recognize that most developers are often less familiar with the underlying network infrastructure that connects the source with the destination of that communication. The enterprise network is often considered to be an operations responsibility – left to others. We will address this part of the story later in this chapter to equip you for the role that you will play in connecting your applications at the Edge to the services you depend on in enterprise or Cloud data centers.