We began our IoT platform-building journey with the end in mind. That is, we first conceived what our own IoT platform would be like and its high-level contents (refer to Figure 3-1 in Chapter 3). So far, we have established a fully functional cloud instance and the message broker.
The next logical step is to start building the rest of the of platform’s plumbing by adding the required blocks of services. In this chapter, we will
Create a time-series database
Update Node-RED with additional nodes
Create a database listener
Build a REST API–based message publisher and retriever ...
