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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz
Book Image

Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By: Mohamed Abdelaziz

Overview of this book

With the rising demand for and recent enhancements in IoT, a developer with sound knowledge of IoT is the need of the hour. This book will help you design, build, and operate large-scale E2E IoT solutions to transform your business and products, increase revenue, and reduce operational costs. Starting with an overview of how IoT technologies can help you solve your business problems, this book will be a useful guide to helping you implement end-to-end IoT solution architecture. You'll learn to select IoT devices; real-time operating systems; IoT Edge covering Edge location, software, and hardware; and the best IoT connectivity for your IoT solution. As you progress, you'll work with IoT device management, IoT data analytics, IoT platforms, and put these components to work as part of your IoT solution. You'll also be able to build IoT backend cloud from scratch by leveraging the modern app architecture paradigms and cloud-native technologies such as containers and microservices. Finally, you'll discover best practices for different operational excellence pillars, including high availability, resiliency, reliability, security, cost optimization, and high performance, which should be applied for large-scale production-grade IoT solutions. By the end of this IoT book, you'll be confident in designing, building, and operating IoT solutions.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Anatomy of IoT
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Section 2: The IoT Backend (aka the IoT Cloud)
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Section 3: IoT Application Architecture Paradigms and IoT Operational Excellence

Cloud-native versus cloud-ready – what is the difference?

Lots of people get confused between cloud-native software and cloud-ready software, so let's start by understanding what cloud-ready means. Traditional software running on virtual machines with no requirement for any specific hardware architecture can be migrated to a public or private cloud easily. This software can therefore be classified as cloud-ready software. The type of migration here is called shift and lift and is always the number-one choice for cloud migration projects.

Now let's go into what cloud-native software means. In short, cloud-native software or applications are those designed and built from the beginning to take advantage of the cloud computing model. In other words, they are born on the cloud from day one. Still not clear? No problem, let's dive deeper.

Let's take one aspect of software development practice, logging, as an example to better understand the difference between...