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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
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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

IoT platform (buy, build, or use?)

Before answering the question of whether to buy, build, or use a managed cloud IoT platform, let's agree upon the following facts:

  • There is no single vendor or IoT platform that can cover or provide everything needed for building an E2E and robust IoT solution. This fact applies to hyperscale vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and others, too.

The different IoT platform vendors might provide a huge set of components and solution building blocks that assist in building large-scale and production-grade IoT solutions, but you may discover some components that they do not provide or support, for example, IoT connectivity management, in particular, cellular IoT connectivity. For this IoT connectivity management component, you might have to depend on mobile network operators' IoT connectivity platforms for managing the cellular connectivity used in the IoT solution. Another example is IoT device hardware. Most vendors will...