Rad G wrote an article has spent four years working on a large scale IoT cloud based project. He shares knowledge accumulated.
The team he was working with maintained a number of cloud deployments of ~70 machines each, they always had a minimum two of those. Platform was deployed every morning to AWS.
It mentions MQTT servers for data exchange, Kafka, Apache Samza running on YARN, Apache Storm, Node.JS web applications, Ganglia metrics collectors, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB, Apache Mesos.
It describes challenges with infrastructure, fast start, and how they used Chef server for orchestration. Quite in depth experience sharing…
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