Chapter 11: Cloud Primitives, Edge Systems & IoT Engineering

The cloud’s raw materials: compute, storage, networking, serverless, and infrastructure as code.

• Cloud Compute Mechanics: Virtual Machines, Bare-Metal, Containers, and Hypervisors
• Storage Primitives: Block Storage, Object Storage (S3), and Network File Systems
• Cloud Networking: Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), Subnets, NAT Gateways, Peering, Transit Gateways, and Mesh Networks
• Serverless, Edge & IoT Infrastructure: AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, MQTT, CoAP, Microcontrollers (ESP32/ARM), Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), and Local-First Sync
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Declarative Provisioning with Terraform and OpenTofu
• Chapter 11: References