The software impact of distributing resources on a network

All this talk of device-agnosticism and open communication might sound extremely abstract up to this point. You may well be reading this and wondering yeah, so what? I don't have to code a network switch, which is probably true. It is certainly true that you won't have to code a network switch in C# using .NET Core, since that is quite a bit beyond the scope and capabilities of the framework, and thus, this book. The impact of the unpredictability of a network on your software, however, will be pretty substantial, and that will be true no matter what part of the network stack you're programming for. So, let's look at some of the ways your code should be prepared for distributed systems.