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Aurélie Vache
Aurélie Vache

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Understanding Network things: part 4 – Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast & Anycast

Hi,
I've got a secret for you, since several years. I'm a developer and I'm a mess in undestanding network things! :'(

It's hard to not understanding things that anyone seems to understand and understanding network concepts can be difficult or time-consuming, specially for developers. That the reason I started to create sketchnotes about Network concepts. I think it could be a good way, more visual, to explain it.

In this article let's dig into the difference between Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast and Anycast. What is it? For which uses cases?

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As usual, if you like theses sketchnotes, you can follow me, and tell me what do you think. I will publish others sketchs shortly :-).

If you are interested, I already published sketchnotes about Kubernetes, Docker and Istio.

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