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 The `auth.json` file must contain information such as the device's ID, the broker's URL, the port to connect to and the TLS certificates to be used while connecting as can be seen inside [dummy.json][dummy]. When connecting over non-TLS connections, authentication information is unncessary as illustrated by [noauth.json][noauth].
 
 
-> **NOTE**: If you are using [Bytebeam][bytebeam], you could download the file downloaded [from the Bytebeam UI][platform]. If you are using your own broker instead, you could use uplink [without TLS][unsecure], but we recommend that you use TLS and [provision your own certificates][provision] to do it. You can read more about securing uplink in the [uplink Security document][security]
+> **NOTE**: If you are using [Bytebeam][bytebeam], you could use the file downloaded [from the Bytebeam UI][platform]. If you are using your own broker instead, you could use uplink [without TLS][unsecure], but we recommend that you use TLS and [provision your own certificates][provision] to do it. You can read more about securing uplink in the [uplink Security document][security].
 
 #### Configuring `uplink`
 One may configure certain features of uplink with the help of a `config.toml` file by using the commandline arguments `-c` or `--config`:
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 It must be noted that parts of, or the entirety of the config file is optional and a user may choose to omit it, letting uplink default to configuration values that are compiled into the binary. uplink only expects the `config.toml` to contain configuration details as given in the [example config.toml][config] file in the configs folder.
 
 #### Writing Applications
-uplink acts as an intermediary between the user's applications and the Bytebeam platform/MQTT 3.1.1 broker of choice. One can accept [Action][action]s from the cloud and push data(from applications such as sensing) or [Action Response][action_response]s back.
+uplink acts as an intermediary between the user's application running on edge devices and the Bytebeam platform/MQTT 3.1.1 broker of choice. One can accept [Action][action]s from the cloud and push data(from applications such as sensing) or [Action Response][action_response]s back.
 
 <img src="docs/uplink.png" height="150px" alt="uplink architecture">