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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)
1
Section 1: Anatomy of IoT
5
Section 2: The IoT Backend (aka the IoT Cloud)
10
Section 3: IoT Application Architecture Paradigms and IoT Operational Excellence

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned what cloud-native apps or solutions are, the difference between cloud-native and cloud-ready solutions, the benefits of building cloud-native solutions, the different pillars of cloud-native apps (including microservices, containers, CI/CD, and automation), and the Twelve-Factor App methodology.

We also examined the microservice architecture, covering what it means and what makes it different from monolithic architecture, along with the benefits and challenges of the microservice architecture. We saw how communication between microservices and with external and internal clients is handled, and looked at API gateways and why they are an important component in the microservice-based application architecture. The concept of service meshes was explained, and we saw how to expose internal, backend, and external APIs in terms of API style (such as REST or gRPC), along with a consideration of the use of databases in microservice-based applications...