32 articles published
Observability
Cloud-native observability tools weren't built for edge and IoT environments — intermittent connectivity, resource constraints, and thousands of nodes change everything. Here's how OpenTelemetry is adapting to make edge deployments actually observable.
28 May 2026
Edge Architecture
Moving compute to the edge while keeping data centralised creates latency you can't engineer away. Turso and Cloudflare D1 bring the database to the edge — here's what that means in practice.
27 May 2026
IoT Operations
Managing firmware updates across thousands of IoT devices is one of the hardest operational challenges in production deployments. Here's how to do it reliably without bricking your fleet.
27 May 2026
Edge AI
Cloud inference is too slow for AI agents that need to act in real time. The March 2026 AT&T/Cisco/NVIDIA network-driven edge AI announcement shows where the infrastructure is heading — and what it means for teams building latency-sensitive agentic applications.
26 May 2026
Industry Applications
Modern farms generate enormous amounts of sensor data — soil moisture, weather, crop imagery, equipment telemetry. Edge computing processes that data where it's created, enabling decisions in seconds rather than hours. Here's how it works in practice.
26 May 2026
Edge Platforms
Serverless edge functions let you run code at CDN PoPs worldwide with sub-millisecond cold starts. Cloudflare Workers and Fastly Compute are the two most mature platforms — here's how they compare in performance, pricing, and developer experience.
25 May 2026
IoT Standards
Matter promised to end the smart home fragmentation nightmare. Three years in, with over 1,100 certified devices and Matter 1.5 released, here's an honest look at where the standard actually stands.
25 May 2026
IoT Protocols
A technical and commercial comparison of LoRaWAN and NB-IoT for long-range, low-power IoT deployments — coverage, power consumption, data rates, cost models, and use case guidance.
23 May 2026
Industrial Edge
Private 5G networks combined with on-site edge computing are becoming the default infrastructure choice for smart factories, ports, and logistics hubs. Here's how the stack works, who the vendors are, and what it costs to deploy.
23 May 2026
Industrial IoT
Direct-to-device connectivity is reshaping industrial IoT in 2026. Here's why more factories and field operations are removing the cloud middleman — and what it means for your architecture.
22 May 2026
Edge AI
RISC-V isn't just a hobbyist architecture any more. With dedicated neural processing units appearing in industrial and embedded edge devices, it's becoming a serious option for edge AI deployments.
22 May 2026
Edge Computing
Five of Europe's biggest telcos just switched on a federated edge cloud covering 55% of the continent's population — here's why that matters for UK organisations.
21 May 2026
Edge Architecture
Why WebAssembly (WASM) is replacing containers as the preferred edge runtime — covering portability, WASI system calls, runtimes like Wasmtime and WasmEdge, and real deployment patterns on Cloudflare Workers and bare-metal edge nodes.
18 May 2026
Edge AI
How TinyML enables machine learning inference on microcontrollers like Arduino Nano 33, STM32, and ESP32-S3 — covering frameworks, use cases, power budgets, and the full training-to-deployment pipeline.
11 May 2026
IoT Platforms
A practical comparison of InfluxDB, TimescaleDB, and Prometheus for IoT telemetry — covering write throughput, query languages, retention policies, clustering, cost, and use-case fit.
5 May 2026
Hardware Tutorials
The Raspberry Pi 5 is capable hardware for many industrial IoT applications. Here's how to harden it, deploy it reliably, and know when to use something else.
28 April 2026
Architecture Guides
Everything IoT developers need to know about MQTT — publish/subscribe model, QoS levels, choosing a broker, and what MQTT 5 adds over 3.1.1.
21 April 2026
Architecture Guides
Running full Kubernetes at the edge is usually wrong. Here's when K3s makes sense, how to deploy it on constrained hardware, and when to skip orchestration entirely.
14 April 2026
Edge Security
How to secure an IoT fleet in production — device identity, network segmentation, firmware signing, and incident response for constrained edge devices.
8 April 2026
Platform Reviews
We deployed the same edge workload on all three platforms. Here's what the deployment experience, pricing, and operational overhead actually look like.
1 April 2026
Architecture Guides
A complete IoT data pipeline architecture guide covering MQTT ingestion, Kafka stream processing, InfluxDB and TimescaleDB storage, and cloud integration patterns.
25 March 2026
Architecture Guides
A technical comparison of industrial IoT protocols — OPC-UA, Modbus, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and MQTT — covering speed, security, and brownfield vs greenfield fit.
18 March 2026
Architecture Guides
Fog computing and edge computing are often conflated but serve different roles in distributed architectures — here's where each layer sits and when to use it.
12 March 2026
Use Cases
How retailers are using edge computing for checkout-free stores, real-time inventory tracking, in-store analytics, and loss prevention — with real ROI examples.
5 March 2026
Industry Use Cases
How edge computing is transforming manufacturing with real-time vision-based quality control, vibration analysis, and OEE monitoring — plus architecture patterns, ROI data, and implementation steps.
26 February 2026
Use Cases
How healthcare organisations use edge computing for patient monitoring, compliant local processing, medical imaging analysis, and surgical robotics latency requirements.
19 February 2026
Industry Use Cases
How edge computing enables real-time smart grid management — covering substation architecture, sub-10ms latency requirements, IEC 61850, distributed energy resource management, and deployments from GE, ABB, and Schneider Electric.
13 February 2026
Architecture Guides
What edge computing actually is, how to design a production-grade edge architecture, and the decision framework for choosing edge vs. cloud — with real-world deployment examples.
6 February 2026
Architecture Guides
A practical guide to edge AI inference covering model optimisation techniques, hardware options, TFLite vs ONNX, and latency benchmarks for Jetson and Coral TPU.
30 January 2026
Architecture Guides
Why full Kubernetes fails at the edge, how K3s and KubeEdge compare, and how to handle container registries and OTA updates in low-bandwidth environments.
23 January 2026
Architecture Guides
A feature-by-feature comparison of AWS IoT Greengrass and Azure IoT Edge covering runtimes, ML inference, pricing, and which to choose for your cloud stack.
17 January 2026
Architecture Guides
How 5G enables multi-access edge computing, private 5G networks, and telco edge deployments — and what ultra-low latency actually means for real applications in 2026.
10 January 2026