Industrial Internet Application Development

Best Practices for IIoT Applications

In the previous chapter, we discussed how to build an IIoT application using Predix services. This chapter takes it further and looks at various different best practices to successfully build a multitenant, maintainable, reliable IIoT application. We will look at the following areas in this section:

• Best practices for API development
• The power of the polyglot programming choice
• Eventual consistency for higher performance
• Strategies to handle multiple versions of the application at scale
• The advantages of using established trust between microservices
• UX strategy for application adoption
• Tracing and logging end to end