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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

Chapter 5: Exploring IoT Platforms

With IoT platforms, we come to the most interesting part in designing and building a large-scale IoT solution.

In the previous chapter, we discussed the IoT Cloud (or the IoT backend) infrastructure part. In this chapter, we will go through the software part of the IoT Cloud. In other words, we will explore the different software services and components that should be provided by the IoT Cloud as a backbone for large-scale IoT solutions.

As explained before, in IoT solutions, software or app development spans all of the IoT solution layers. Software is present everywhere in IoT solution layers. In Chapter 2, The "I" in IoT – IoT Connectivity, we discussed the different software that could be running on IoT and Edge devices to collect, process, and act upon the collected IoT data through the different IoT sensors attached to IoT devices.

In the IoT backend, we need to understand the different software services deployed in...