Technical Building Blocks: A Technology Reference for Real-world Product Development

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022

G. Sagar, V. SyrovatskyiTechnical Building Blockshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8658-6_2

2. Cloud: On Demand Computing Resources for Scale and Speed

Gaurav Sagar¹   and Vitalii Syrovatskyi²

(1)

Bellevue, WA, USA

(2)

Issaquah, WA, USA

 

What Is the Internet

Let’s ask ourselves what the Internet is and how it works. The Internet growth was explosive, and it seems impossible to escape it nowadays. Because the Internet has become such a large part of our lives, a good understanding is needed to use this new tool most effectively.

Since the Internet is a giant network, each computer needs to have a unique address, which comes in the form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn where each ...