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2021: The year of Cortex for IoT?

My Grafana Labs colleague RichiH recently talked about why IoT and time series databases work so well together. It just so happens that we have a highly scalable time series database on hand. Let’s talk about that. My name is Goutham, and I am a maintainer for Cortex. I have been working on it for nearly three years out of the four-and-a-half years the project has existed. Cortex is built to serve as a scalable, long-term store for Prometheus.

The basics of IoT, and why Prometheus works so well with it

Before we start, please take a moment to appreciate what day it is. IoT, or Internet of Things, has been a buzzword for longer than usual. Buzzwords usually have two common properties, and then their paths fork. I like thinking about buzzwords and about the useful aspects of what they mean. The most recent public example focuses on another buzzword currently in its hype phase: observability.

Innovation in IoT Devices and its Trends in 2021

Connected devices will obviously have a firm hold of various industries in the present. Since the pandemic Covid 19, has affected every aspect of our life, the evolution of innovations in IoT has been impacted a lot in the daily life of people amid the crisis. The connection between the world is being made easily possible with increased use cases with the IoT devices, which connects appliances and initiates the exchange of information.

DFI and Canonical offer risk-free system updates and reduced software lead times for the IoT ecosystem

Feb. 25, 2021 – DFI and Canonical signed the Ubuntu IoT Hardware Certification Partner Program. DFI is the world’s first industrial computer manufacturer to join the program aimed at offering Ubuntu-certified IoT hardware ready for the over-the-air software update. The online update mechanism of and the authorized DFI online application store combines with DFI’s products’ application flexibility, to reduce software and hardware development time to deploy new services.

Device Firmware Update Best Practices

Implementing OTA (Over The Air) firmware updates is one of the most critical yet complicated processes of building hardware. And unfortunately, many organizations don't invest the same amount of resources in device firmware updates as they do in software. In this recorded webinar, Memfault Founder & CEO François Baldassari walks through the best practices he has learned over the years for device firmware updates. He also presents a device firmware update architecture that will help you avoid spending hours and hours debugging firmware update issues.

How To - Monitor IoT with Catchpoint

In this How-To, we’re going to look at a specific Catchpoint synthetic monitor that helps you analyze the health of systems built around the Internet of things (IoT). Now, IoT is obviously a huge category, so in this case, we’re going to look at systems that utilize the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport or MQTT for short.

Not All Buzzwords are Created Equal: Real Applications of Zero Trust Security for IoT

Zero Trust security. Some would say it’s the latest and greatest buzzword and this disposition is understandable given the amount of jargon introduced into the Information Technology market each year. With vernacular being used interchangeably like “AI,” “Machine Learning,” and “Deep Learning,” these words get stripped of their real significance.