Author Archive for Mike Blackstock

CQRS and Event Sourcing for the IoT

Leveraging modern application architectures for IoT applications. Mike Blackstock, Sense Tecnic Systems Introduction In the Internet of things, devices communicate with gateways and cloud computing systems, providing information from the physical world to services that provide domain-specific information to end users.  This could include for example, the location and status of products in a supply chain, the current soil moisture…

Who is FRED?

Building IoT applications is a complex task.  It requires the integration of a variety of protocols and services, a secure and flexible backend to manage and gather huge volumes of time series data streams from ’things’ and services.  Developers need a means to pre-and post process and mechanisms to alert and react to changes in both the physical and online…