Book excerpt: Discover how every solution that is in some way related to the IoT needs a platform and how to create that platform. This book is about being agile and reducing your time to market without breaking the bank. It is about designing something that you can scale incrementally without a lot of rework and potentially disrupting the current work. So, the key questions are: What does it take? How long does it take? And, how much does it take to build your own IoT platform? This book answers these questions and provides you with a step-by-step guidance on how to build your own IoT platform. In this book, the author bursts the bubble and highlights how the core of an IoT platform looks like. There are always some must-haves and some nice-to-haves. This book will distinguish the two and focus on how to build the must-haves. Building your IoT platform is not only the biggest cost saver but can also be a satisfying learning experience. In this edition, we will undertake a sample project to further clarify the concepts we learn; additional chapters would show you the hardware interface. What You Will Learn: · Learn how to architect an interconnected system. · Learn how to develop flexible architecture. · Learn to prioritize system requirements with a bottom-up approach. · Be able to create a redundant communications platform. · Be able to create an end-to-end application using the guidelines in this book. Who Is This Book For IoT developers with basic-to-intermediate programming skills would benefit from this book.