Fredrik Jansson
Mastering audit trails: Using SQL to analyze who did what
Being able to see who did what at what time is a necessity in business-critical systems. In the Avassa Edge Platform, the audit trail log provides exactly this visibility. In this blog post, I’ll show you what’s available in the audit trail log and discuss…
Read moreHow to Authenticate Users at the Edge
When you run web applications at the edge, user authentication becomes a first-class concern. You typically have multiple applications, multiple sites, and multiple user roles – and where common cloud identity providers require continuous connectivity that edge environments cannot always guarantee … In this post, I’ll…
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How is MQTT Used at the Edge? Deploying Lightweight Messaging at Scale
As data volumes continue to grow at the device edge, sending all data to the cloud is no longer feasible. Increasingly large amounts of…
Read moreHow to Integrate Your C/C++ Applications with the Avassa Edge Platform
C++ programmers, we haven’t forgotten about you! We have several customers with an active C/C++ code base. It’s therefore natural the question comes up on how to integrate that code with the Avassa Edge Platform. Generally, you don’t need to integrate the code itself into…
Read moreSending Avassa Edge Platform Alerts to Grafana via Prometheus Pushgateway
Monitoring distributed edge systems efficiently is essential for maintaining reliability and performance. The Avassa Edge Platform provides flexible alerting capabilities that can notify you when important events occur across your edge fleet. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to forward Avassa alerts to Grafana for…
Read moreInstalling a Windows server on the Avassa Edge Platform (Yes, it can be done)
We see a lot of legacy Windows applications out there, in particular in Industrial IoT/OT domains. Common examples are HMI (human-machine interfaces) types of machines. We’re modernizing the network, now what? Our customers are actively modernizing their software in the network, bringing in modern applications…
Read moreAvassa in ISA-95 Segmented Networks for Industrial IoT
In this blog post, I’ll walk through how to set up the Avassa Edge Platform in a three-layer ISA-95 segmented network using Edge Enforcer proxies. This demo showcases how Avassa can operate even in highly restricted industrial environments. In this article, we explore how the…
Read moreCan you ping it, yes you can!
In this blog post I will show how you can setup a very simple distributed ping application to troubleshoot network issues. In traditional cases you can run ping from your local host or ssh to a host where you would issue the command. But think…
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Edge Deployment Strategies for Scalable, AI-Ready Applications
Edge deployment is the process of installing, configuring, and managing applications on computing resources located close to where data is generated, such as retail…
Read moreHow to Size Log Topics in the Avassa Edge Platform
In this blog post, I will describe how to properly size log topics in an Avassa system. Log topics are critical for capturing and reviewing logs from applications and system components, but without proper sizing, they can either consume too much disk space or fail…
Read moreAWS Authentication for Edge Applications using Strongbox Certificates
Edge applications often need to connect back to the cloud—commonly to send data or consume services. A critical part of this process is secure authentication with AWS. While tokens are frequently used, a stronger and more automated approach is to use short-lived client certificates. In…
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Smooth Sailing at the Edge: How to Migrate Legacy VMs to Containers with Avassa
Over the past decade, containerization has revolutionized the way applications are deployed and managed. While the shift toward containers has been rapid in cloud…
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