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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz Alwan
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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By: Mohamed Abdelaziz Alwan

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

IoT solution monitoring

Monitoring systems are critical components in any large-scale and production-grade IoT solution. You need a centralized monitoring solution (a single pane of glass) that tells you everything you need to know about the different IoT solution operations and performance. Such monitoring systems help in the following:

  • IoT solution troubleshooting activities.
  • Real-time alerting for issues that occur, which will enable you to quickly respond to those issues that are triggered.
  • Proactively identifying the trends and anomalies from the IoT solution logs, traces, and metrics. This is where IoT solution monitoring systems help in securing IoT solutions.

Before we go further with the typical monitoring system architecture that you could use for your IoT solution, we need to first understand the following concepts:

  • Metrics are data points that can easily be quantified. Metrics are things such as system metrics (that is, CPU, memory, disk utilization...