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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
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Section 2: The IoT Backend (aka the IoT Cloud)
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Section 3: IoT Application Architecture Paradigms and IoT Operational Excellence

Chapter 4: Diving Deep into the IoT Backend (the IoT Cloud)

In previous chapters, we mentioned the terms Internet of Things (IoT) cloud and IoT backend quite a lot. In those chapters, we were focusing mainly on IoT endpoint devices, IoT Edge devices, and the connectivity between those devices and the internet.

The goal of the previous chapters was to show the ability to sense the physical world and act upon the useful business operation data collected from the physical world through IoT devices, then through the different IoT connectivity options; such generated and collected IoT data is sent to the IoT backend operation and control systems, or IoT cloud in short, for further processing and analysis. 

The sensing part is directed from the IoT devices toward the IoT backend systems, which follows the IoT telemetry design pattern. The opposite direction is from the IoT backend systems toward the IoT devices to act upon and control those IoT devices, which follows...