Amazon VPC Basics

Introduction Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define. You have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets, and configuration of route tables and network gateways. A default … Read more

TCP with Node

Introduction Everyone who has any knowledge of the internet is well-aware of the Transport Control Protocol (TCP). Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf invented TCP in the 1970s for satellite communications. In their work building a satellite communications network, they realized the need for a hardware-independent mechanism to move data from one computer to another. All prior work … Read more

Networking Basics

Its been a while that docker or container technologies are threatening the way we are delivering software. Cloud platforms are offering the capabilities which were only possible for the powerful and rich (ok, may be I could have written “were hard to get”). Networks, their administration and management are being abstracted away and the software … Read more