As a relatively new architect, I jumped at the opportunity to attend the recent O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in San Jose, California, and was eager to absorb as much as I could. Before I became an architect, I thought the role was mainly about designing systems, and evaluating and selecting…

MQTT is the de-facto messaging protocol in the IoT world. When it comes to authenticating and identifying thousands of devices, you may see mention of client certificate authentication, but very little on how to actually achieve this. …

In Solace PubSub+ Cloud, we began storing metrics early on in anticipation for accounting and billing. The problem was that we weren’t quite sure which metrics would be used nor what sort of queries would be needed to support our accounting and billing needs. We chose Elasticsearch for storage as…