IoT Security Architecture: Trust Zones and Security Boundaries
There are many aspects to architecting an Internet of Things (IoT) solution. Security is the most important aspect of any computer system, but it’s especially…
Azure IoT
Microsoft Azure offers a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) services in the cloud. This includes Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT Edge, Azure Digital Twins, Azure Sphere, and more!
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AZ-220: Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Specialty Certification and Exam (RETIRED)
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer certification exam (AZ-220) tests and validates your expertise as an Azure Internet of Things (IoT) Developer. Passing this exam will…
What is Azure IoT Hub?
Security and reliability are 2 huge problem areas to overcome with the Internet of Things (IoT). The Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is the cloud solution…
Lambda Architecture for IoT and Big Data Systems
Lambda Architecture is a data processing design pattern designed for Big Data systems that need to process data in near real-time. This pattern works very…
Administrator’s Introduction to Azure IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) industry has continued to grow and become more pervasive in people’s everyday lives these last few years. There are MANY…
Internet of Things (IoT) Messaging Architecture
Internet of Things (IoT) architecture requires a different kind of message queue based communication than other types of software systems or big data solutions. Most…
Introduction to Azure Sphere – Secure IoT Development Platform
Azure Sphere is Microsoft’s Internet of Things (IoT) platform for building more highly secured IoT solutions. Azure Sphere incorporates components of hardware, operating system, and…
Microsoft Azure IoT Developer AZ-220 Certification is now LIVE (RETIRED)
The Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer Specialty certification (and exam AZ-220) is now LIVE and out of Beta. This is the first cloud-based Internet of…
Azure CLI: Create Azure IoT Hub
It’s really easy to provision an instance of Azure IoT Hub using the Azure Portal. However, there are times when you need to automate the…
Deploy Azure IoT Hub using Terraform DevOps Infrastructure Automation
HashiCorp Terraform is popular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool used to automate infrastructure deployments. Terraform is great for deploying Microsoft Azure resources like Azure IoT…
Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT?
Both Azure Event Grid and Azure IoT Hub are massively scalable messaging services in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. There’s a lot of talk about Azure…
Azure IoT Hub Now Generally Available
On Feb 3, 2016, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Azure IoT Hub is now Generally Available (GA). Azure IoT Hub service is available stand-alone or as…
Tour of Azure Messaging Services (Event Grid, Queues, Topics, IoT Hub, and More)
In the early days of Microsoft Azure, there were only a couple message queue service; Azure Storage Queue and Service Bus. This was way back…
Terraform: Create Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
At the core of any Internet of Things (IoT) solution built with Microsoft Azure is the need to connect IoT devices to the cloud and…
Azure CLI: Manage Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
One of the services within Microsoft Azure for building out IoT solutions is the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service (DPS). Just as with other…
Azure Bicep: Create IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS)
All Azure IoT solutions are built starting with Azure IoT Hub as the cloud-base message broker for the Internet of Things (IoT) solution. This service…
Deciding PaaS or SaaS for Building IoT Solutions in Microsoft Azure
Building out an IoT (Internet of Things) solution can be a difficult problem to solve. It sounds easy at first, you just connect a bunch…
Azure IoT DevKit: Upgrade Firmware – MXChip, AZ3166
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit (AZ3166) board is built for prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and getting started quickly and easily. As part…
Microsoft Azure IoT Extension for Azure CLI 2.0
Microsoft has been investing heavily in the pretty much every aspect of Microsoft Azure, and the IoT (Internet of Things) space is not being left…
Azure IoT Developer Kit: Sensor Overview
The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible board built for helping with prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The key difference with…