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The IoT world is full of vendor locked solutions and platforms that you must avoid. And the joke "the S in IoT stands for Security" is very very true, though AW
by speedgoose 6y ago
The IoT world is full of vendor locked solutions and platforms that you must avoid. And the joke "the S in IoT stands for Security" is very very true, though AWS Greengrass is actually pretty good for security, if you don't mind sending all your data to a USA company of course.
I would recommend to go opensource and skip the platforms that try to lock you in. There is a lot of solutions depending on how low-level you want to be. Like HomeAssistant if you want high level, or a Mosquitto MQTT broker and NodeRed and some dongles on a Raspberry pi if you want to be lower level.
- wiremine 6y agoDisclaimer: I'm VP of Engineering for software consultancy focused on IoT. We work with startups, midcap and several fortune 500s. I agree vendor lock in must be avoided. I also disagree that Open Source is the best approach in all situations. Mosquito and Raspberry Pi are fine for smaller projects, but if you're going to push 100M or a billion messages, you're better off leveraging a IaaS solution like AWS IoT Core. At least, until you have a dedicated 24/7 opps team that can triage and support the solution. The trick is to create the right abstractions and architectures to migrate your solutions off of AWS and onto another solution: Azure, your own, etc.