Designing Production-Grade and Large-Scale IoT Solutions: A comprehensive and practical guide

Get to grips with key IoT aspects along with modern trends, architectures, and technologies that support IoT solutions, such as cloud computing, modern app architecture paradigms, and data analytics
Key Features

Understand the big picture of designing production-grade IoT solutions from an industry expert
Get up and running with the development and designing aspects of the Internet of Things
Solve business problems specific to your domain using different IoT platforms and technologies

Book Description

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.
What you will learn

Understand the detailed anatomy of IoT solutions and explore their building blocks
Explore IoT connectivity options and protocols used in designing IoT solutions
Understand the value of IoT platforms in building IoT solutions
Explore real-time operating systems used in microcontrollers
Automate device administration tasks with IoT device management
Master different architecture paradigms and decisions in IoT solutions
Build and gain insights from IoT analytics solutions
Get an overview of IoT solution operational excellence pillars

Who this book is for

This book is for E2E solution architects, systems and technical architects, and IoT developers looking to design, build, and operate E2E IoT applications and solutions. Basic knowledge of cloud computing, software engineering, and distributed system design will help you get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents

Introduction to IoT – The Big Picture
The 'I' in IoT – Connectivity
The 'T' in IoT – Devices and Edge
Deep Dive into the IoT Backend - The IoT Cloud
Exploring IoT Platforms
Understanding IoT Device Management
At the End, It Is All About Data, Isn't It?
IoT Application Architecture Paradigms
Production-Grade Operations for IoT Applications
Wrap Up and Final Thoughts