Connected Intelligence: Edge-Native Design for IoT Apps and Microservices Beyond the Cloud

We are entering the next phase of distributed computing where we find ourselves immersed in ubiquitous & cheap compute in the form of IoT devices all around us. This presents an opportunity to evolve …

We are entering the next phase of distributed computing where we find ourselves immersed in ubiquitous & cheap compute in the form of IoT devices all around us. This presents an opportunity to evolve design principles for applications and microservices running on these devices. How do we build applications that run natively on the edge devices and interact with cloud? What are the do’s and dont’s for building edge applications? Do cloud-native design principles map directly to edge-native, or does it diverge away in certain areas? How do we leverage machine learning frameworks to embed intelligence in the edge apps? We explore these questions in the context of Project Flogo, an Open Source Integration Framework and real-world Industrial IoT problems.