In this engaging discussion, Alexandra Huides, a Principal Network Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS, shares her vast expertise in cloud networking. She emphasizes why developers need to grasp networking fundamentals for troubleshooting and performance. The conversation dives into latency's impact on app design, the evolving roles between developers and network teams, and critical VPC concepts like Peering and Transit Gateway. Alexandra also introduces Amazon VPC Lattice, which aims to streamline collaboration between developers, networks, and security teams for better application connectivity.