Architecting IoT Solutions on Azure

How can you make sense of the complex IoT landscape? With dozens of different components, ranging from the devices to metadata about those 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 you with 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 book’s 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. With this book, you will:Meet the demands of an IoT solution with Azure-provided functionalityUse Azure to create complete scalable and secure IoT systemsUnderstand how to articulate IoT architecture and solutionsGuide conversations around common problems that IoT applications solveSelect the appropriate technologies in the Azure space to build IoT applications

Author Biography

Blaize Stewart has been interested in software development since childhood, and wrote his first web apps while in high school when Internet applications were still a novel idea. Since that time, Blaize has built numerous applications for all kinds of devices, including embedded systems, handheld devices, desktop apps, and web apps.This broad experience equipped him for the next wave of challenges: building scalable systems in the cloud. Since the nascent days of cloud computing, Blaize has been at the forefront of building cloud systems with a global scale.