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Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

By : Indraneel Mitra, Ryan Burke
Book Image

Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

By: Indraneel Mitra, Ryan Burke

Overview of this book

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed how people think about and interact with the world. The ubiquitous deployment of sensors around us makes it possible to study the world at any level of accuracy and enable data-driven decision-making anywhere. Data analytics and machine learning (ML) powered by elastic cloud computing have accelerated our ability to understand and analyze the huge amount of data generated by IoT. Now, edge computing has brought information technologies closer to the data source to lower latency and reduce costs. This book will teach you how to combine the technologies of edge computing, data analytics, and ML to deliver next-generation cyber-physical outcomes. You’ll begin by discovering how to create software applications that run on edge devices with AWS IoT Greengrass. As you advance, you’ll learn how to process and stream IoT data from the edge to the cloud and use it to train ML models using Amazon SageMaker. The book also shows you how to train these models and run them at the edge for optimized performance, cost savings, and data compliance. By the end of this IoT book, you’ll be able to scope your own IoT workloads, bring the power of ML to the edge, and operate those workloads in a production setting.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction and Prerequisites
3
Section 2: Building Blocks
10
Section 3: Scaling It Up
13
Section 4: Bring It All Together

Describing the AWS Well-Architected Framework

In 2015, AWS launched a framework for guiding developers through the process of making good design decisions when building on AWS. The AWS Well-Architected Framework codifies the best practices for defining, deploying, and operating workloads on the AWS cloud. It exists as a whitepaper of best practices and a web-based tool to approach a solution evaluation as a checklist of considerations and suggested mitigation strategies. This expertise aims to serve AWS customers but is delivered in a format that is generally useful for evaluating any kind of digital workload. We will use this framework to retroactively review this book's solution of the Home Base Solutions appliance monitoring product.

The Well-Architected Framework organizes best practices into five pillars. A pillar is a section of the framework that aggregates design principles and guiding questions to resolve under a common purpose. The five pillars are as follows:

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