Introduction
Understand the core networking components and protocols that connect nodes in distributed systems. Learn about the layered architecture of the Internet protocol suite, addressing challenges such as reliability, latency, and bandwidth. This lesson builds a foundation for creating efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed applications by examining protocols from the physical layer up to the application layer.
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The previous lesson taught us about the end nodes of a distributed system, which treats the network that connects them as a black box.
This chapter will examine the various components of this network, which facilitates communication between the nodes that form a distributed system.
Applications typically rely on a set of well-specified protocols which allow these applications to perform their functions at a high-level of proficiency, without the need to deal with low-level details. This means that people can build applications in many cases without the knowledge of how these lower levels functions work.
However, this knowledge does enable us to ...