Industrial Internet Application Development

IIoT applications at scale

Understanding how to scale IIoT applications is very important. The system should be able to effortlessly process growing workloads, as measured by transaction per second (TPS), amount of data stored, or number of concurrent users/requests. The IIoT architecture and design guidelines we have discussed, about using microservices and gateways are inherently built to scale.

Let's look at a typical process for scaling IIoT applications:

1. Capacity planning
2. Test for load/performance
3. Measure and identify bottlenecks
4. Scale individual components

The basic idea is to do proper capacity planning as a first step, considering the business needs (for example, quality of service) and data growth for each of the components. These ...