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2.1 Clients and brokers used in this book
Several different clients and brokers can be used to build the initial publish/subscribe program
that is created later in this chapter. Each is relatively easy to use and can be obtained from
sources across the Internet. Additional options exist (refer to 1.2.6, “MQTT and open source”
on page 10), but the ones listed here are considered to be among the most mature.
2.1.1 MQTT clients
An MQTT client (also called a client application) collects information from a telemetry device,
connects to a messaging server, and uses a topic string to publish the information in a way
that allows other clients or applications to retrieve it. ...