Название: Architecting IoT Solutions on Azure: Conquering Complexity for Scalable Device and Data Management
Автор: Blaize Stewart
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2024
Страниц: 321
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

How can you make sense of the complex IoT landscape? With dozens of components ranging from devices to metadata about the devices, it's easy to get lost among the possibilities. But it's not impossible if you have the right guide to help you navigate all the complexities. This practical book shows developers, architects, and IT managers how to build IoT solutions on Azure.

Author Blaize Stewart presents a comprehensive view of the IoT landscape. You'll learn about devices, device management at scale, and the tools Azure provides for building globally distributed systems. You'll also explore ways to organize data by choosing the appropriate dataflow and data storage technologies. The final chapters examine data consumption and solutions for delivering data to consumers with Azure. Get the architectural guidance you need to create holistic solutions with devices, data, and everything in between.

The Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t merely a web of gadgets that flicker to life at the touch of a button. It’s a sophisticated network of interconnected devices, autonomously collecting, transmitting, and receiving vast amounts of data. As I ventured further into this domain, even more pressing questions surfaced: How does one seamlessly update all those devices? What measures ensure their tamper-resistance? And perhaps most dauntingly, how can one effectively process and analyze the deluge of data they produce?

In response to these questions, Microsoft has unveiled a vast IoT ecosystem on Azure, encompassing a range of Microsoft-managed cloud services, state-of-the-art edge components, and SDKs. Each component plays a pivotal role in the lifecycle of an IoT solution. Navigating this expansive realm requires methodical organization. I’ve found mapping out domains, creating a taxonomy, to be an invaluable strategy in clarifying the otherwise overwhelming world of IoT. Each domain, while self-contained, intertwines with others, forming a comprehensive picture I’ve come to describe as the IoT Landscape.

In this book, I segment this intricate topic into smaller domains. My aim is to provide readers with both a panoramic view and deep dives into its many aspects. My goal extends beyond mere knowledge dissemination; I strive to empower you, the reader, to navigate the Azure IoT ecosystem with ease and design IoT solutions tailored to your distinct needs and budget.

Azure Data Lake is a product that implements the general idea of a data lake. A data lake is a data repository, like a file system, but it’s primarily intended to house massive amounts of data used for analytical purposes. Because it’s designed for analytics, it’s optimized for analytics, meaning that it’s typically going to be fast on retrieving data, but at the expense of other operations like scanning for files or random reads and writes on data in the data lake. Azure Data Lake was originally a standalone product, but with Gen 2, it’s a feature of Blob Storage. Under the covers, Data Lake uses Blob Storage, but it exposes the data differently, and the storage for Data Lake is more optimized for analytical workloads. It might be useful to think of Azure Data Lake Gen 2 as a specialized form of Blob Storage while Blob Storage is more general purpose.

This book helps you
• Meet the demands of an IoT solution with Azure-provided functionality
• Use Azure to create complete scalable and secure IoT systems
• Understand how to articulate IoT architecture and solutions
• Guide conversations around common problems that IoT applications solve
• Select the appropriate technologies in the Azure space to build IoT applications

Who Should Read This Book:
If you’re looking for a book that speaks to holistic IoT solutions on Azure, you’re in the right place. This book has a little something for everyone in IT, including management, architects, engineers, and administrators.

For folks in the C-suite and IT managers, this book will help inform your business decisions when implementing an IoT solution on Azure. You’ll learn why something is done a particular way, and why Azure is a versatile platform for solutions. Definitely start with Chapter 1 to build your foundational knowledge of what goes into an IoT solution.

For those in architect roles, there will be plenty for you to feast on in this book. I’ll serve up the nitty-gritty details of each domain so you can enrich your understanding of IoT solutions on Azure. Whether you’re a new architect or a battle-tested one, you’ll find something of interest in this book.

For engineers who may be responsible for implementing many of these solutions, the domain-specific chapters in particular, such as those on data engineering or cloud messaging, will give you what you need to know to implement an Azure-based solution.

Finally, for administrators and those managing cloud infrastructure, you’ll be particularly interested in the chapters dedicated to monitoring, security, and governance.
In essence, no matter your role in IT and IoT, there’s something here for you!

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