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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

IoT solution automation and DevOps

To understand why automation is such an important aspect of best-in-class IoT solutions, think about the following: you have designed and built a highly available, scalable, resilient, and fully monitored IoT solution. One day, you get a notification or an alert from the IoT monitoring solution that there's a software bug or a security vulnerability discovered on the IoT device, IoT Edge, or in any IoT backend component. Now, if you don't have an automated process and tools in place to enable you to quickly release a software patch, then you lose all the benefits you get from a system like an IoT monitoring system. What is the point of being notified about issues if it takes such a long time to fix such issues?! Automation is what closes the circle of having a good IoT solution with high operational excellence.

Delays in releasing software patches to your IoT devices or the IoT cloud could have severe impacts on the company's brand...