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Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions

By : Mohamed Abdelaziz
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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 9: Operational Excellence Pillars for Production-Grade IoT Solutions

Remember that you are on a mission of designing and architecting a production-grade, large-scale IoT solution, not an IoT hobby or fun project. Therefore, you should make sure that your IoT solution is all of the following: fully secure; scalable; reliable; monitored; observed and fully controlled; resilient; fault-tolerant; highly performant; and cost-effective.

IoT solutions are typically complex and contain many systems, components, and layers, so delivering the aforementioned operational excellence aspects is quite challenging.

For example, to make sure your IoT solution is fully secure, you need to start that journey by first securing the IoT devices and microcontrollers, followed by IoT edge devices, IoT gateways, and local networks, before securing communication or the transportation link between the IoT devices and IoT cloud over the wide-area network, and finally securing the IoT backend cloud...