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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)
1
Section 1: Introduction and Prerequisites
3
Section 2: Building Blocks
10
Section 3: Scaling It Up
13
Section 4: Bring It All Together

Knowledge check

Before moving on to the next chapter, test your knowledge by answering these questions. The answers can be found at the end of the book:

  1. Which of the following is the best practice for how to organize code in edge ML solutions? A monolithic application or isolated services?
  2. What is the benefit of decoupling services in your edge architecture?
  3. What is the benefit of isolating your code and dependencies from other services?
  4. What is one trade-off to consider when choosing between wired and wireless networking implementations in IoT solutions?
  5. What is an example of a smart home device that uses both a sensor and an actuator?
  6. What are the two kinds of resources that define an IoT Greengrass component?
  7. True or false: A component must define at least one artifact in its recipe.
  8. Why is it a good design principle that, by default, only the root system user can interact with files in the IoT Greengrass directory?
  9. True or false: Components...