Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

Deliver cyber-physical outcomes with data and machine learning using AWS IoT Greengrass

Indraneel Mitra

Ryan Burke

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

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To Guruji and the Almighty for bestowing immense blessings and grace on my life. To my mom and dad for all their love, support, and sacrifices and for making me the person I am today. To my wife, for her continued support of my dreams and for being my loving partner throughout our life journey. To my children, Ivan and Aayan, for bringing enormous joy, determination, and enthusiasm to my life. And to my in-laws for the immense support they have given to my family.

To my teachers, especially Ashok Mitra, Utpal Basu, and Gautam Mahapatra, for giving direction to my life. To my peers turned lifelong friends who have believed in me and stood by my crazy ideas over the test of time – Sudip Dasgupta, Rudra Bhattacharjee, Amit Mukherjee, and Harish Rajagopalan.

I also want to share my heartfelt thanks to the AWS IoT and Automotive Technical Field community, along with the incredible leaders who have mentored me over the years: Olawale Oladehin, Gavin Adams, Dean Phillips, Nisarg Modi, Kanwal Duggal, and Brett Francis.

I also want to express my sincere gratitude to James Gosling and coauthor Ryan Burke for making this book a reality. And finally, to the technical reviewers and collaborators – Gavin Adams, Ashok Rao, and Amit Mukherjee – for their ideas and feedback to help refine and polish the content of this book.

– Indraneel (Neel) Mitra

To my wife, Nicole, for supporting me while taking on a book project in addition to working full time. To my friends and family for their support during this time. And special thanks to the AWS IoT Technical Field community and the leaders in my career at Amazon who have helped me to grow: Rahul Sareen, Olawale Oladehin, Glenn Dasmalchi, Sarah Cooper, Vadim Jelezniakov, Shyam Krishnamoorthy, and Kyle Roche.

– Ryan Burke

Contributors

About the authors

Indraneel Mitra is a Principal Solutions Architect for IoT at Amazon Web Services. He has 17+ years of IT consulting and architecting experience with start-ups and Fortune 500 customers across different industry verticals. He has spoken at different events, including AWS re:Invent, AWS Summits, AWS Webinar and Twitch shows, the RSA cybersecurity conference, the Emerging Technologies for Enterprise (ETE) conference, and local meetups on different topics for many years as a seasoned public speaker. Neel is also the co-author and trainer of the popular IoT course, AWS IoT: Developing and Deploying an Internet of Things, available on Coursera and edX. He holds an M.S. in software engineering from BITS Pilani, India.

Ryan Burke is a Senior Sustainability Application Architect at Amazon Web Services, formerly the Worldwide Technical Leader for IoT. He has worked in information technology since 2006, developing web services, user experiences, and architecting IoT solutions. He has spoken to audiences on IoT topics at events including AWS re:Invent, SxSW, TDWI, and local meetup communities. He holds a B.S. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and served 6 years as a communications officer in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. In his free time, Ryan enjoys yoga, coffee snobbery, games of all kinds, and annoying his family with a new smart home project.

About the reviewers

Ashok Rao is an IoT specialist solutions architect at AWS. He has a master's degree in electronics engineering and has been working with many global customers in the embedded systems and IoT domains for the past 10+ years. Ashok has helped design, develop, and deploy many solutions and advise companies as they navigate the challenges of moving IoT projects from concept to production. He also has experience working with microcontroller devices, RTOSes, and firmware development for various devices in the consumer electronics domain. This gives him a rare mix of knowledge both in the device/hardware layer and cloud computing spaces.

I would like to thank my parents and son, Abhay Rao, for the opportunity to contribute to this book.

Gavin Adams is a Principal Solutions Architect with Amazon Web Services, specializing in helping customers deploy IoT solutions. Prior to his current role at AWS, Gavin began his technology career supporting nuclear energy testing missions in the Nevada desert. Since then, he has been involved in other aspects of information technology, including software development, security, system automation, system architecture, and design, and since 2012, he has focused primarily on cloud-native solutions for customers. He now focuses on the delivery of edge compute solutions, putting him back in the physical world with hands-on systems leveraging cloud capabilities, and sometimes, even back in those same arid landscapes.