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Deploying HiveMQ Edge in multiple sites
Edge computing and IoT have a happy marriage. IoT focuses on devices at the edge and data collection. Edge computing enables local processing of that data. There is a range of protocols that are relevant like Modbus and OPC UA. HiveMQ provides a containerized bridge…
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Customer testimonial: Extenda Retail
Customer testimonial Hear it from a customer: Extenda Retail Deploying critical components of applications inside the retail store location significantly improves reliability. Using Avassa,…
Read moreJune 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Versioned vaults Our release before the famous Swedish summer comes with versioned vaults: We have merged un-versioned and versioned vaults so that you now always get a versioned vault. This allows you to return to a previous value in your secrets store. Versioned vaults Previously…
Read moreTelemetry bus at the edge – Part 3: Consuming and producing
In the previous post in this blog series, we explained and walked through a bunch of different implementation examples of an edge-native telemetry bus. Take a step back: Telemetry bus at the edge – Part 1: An overview Now, let’s move along! In this blog…
Read moreTelemetry bus at the edge – Part 2: Examples
In this article series, we go deeper in describing the bus; why we built it, and what are the unique features. We illustrate this with some usage examples. In this second part, we’ll look at a few implementation examples. In the previous post in this…
Read moreTelemetry bus at the edge – Part 1: An overview
In order to solve relevant use cases for the edge, Avassa has a built-in edge native telemetry bus; “Volga”. We also sometimes refer to it as the Avassa pub/sub bus. In this article series, we go deeper in describing the bus; why we built it,…
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Containerized Edge Computing: The Next-Gen IoT Platforms Explained
IoT as a term and technology has existed for decades and the use of an IoT Platform is consequently widely spread. It has been…
Read moreExperimenting with autonomous self-healing edge sites
In this blog post, I’ll experiment a bit with autonomous self-healing edge sites and how they are crucial for a stellar edge infrastructure. Why are autonomous self-healing edge sites important? The motivations for edge projects are in many cases latency, privacy, network bandwidth optimization, and…
Read moreHow to set up log export from Avassa to Google
In this blog post, I’ll describe how to setup log export to GCP from the Avassa edge platform. Offloading logs While the Avassa platform has a lot of tooling around logs and metrics in our APIs and UI, many of our customers have a hybrid…
Read moreMQTT with Intermittent Networks Connections
MQTT is a very common protocol in IoT scenarios. It’s a lightweight protocol that is widely supported in most corners of this domain. In this article, we take a closer look at how to cache MQTT messages in the the event of a connectivity outage.…
Read moreMay 2023: Feature releases & highlights
Host call-home visibility, offline sites documentation Host call home status and progress The modus operandi for adding hosts to your sites are the following: This will display the serial number of the motherboard. When Edge Enforcer starts, it will call home to the Control Tower…
Read moreCan I get an email on alerts?
In this article, we’ll look at how to set up email notifications when an alert is raised in the Avassa platform. This can help users that lack an operation center instantly track alerts through their inbox. No alert shall go unnoticed A recent conversation with…
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