GOTO Copenhagen 2016 - Scaling IoT

What happens when your consumer IoT solution becomes a success? Your technology starts to break down. In this talk we explain how we got our product to a large consumer market and what we had to change to keep it running.

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1. Scaling IoT Michiel Fokke, Freek van Gool @javafreekNL @twoxey
2. Agenda A little bit about us & Quby What is Toon? Scaling IoT Final thoughts Questions @javafreekNL @twoxey
3. Who we are? Freek Michiel @javafreekNL @twoxey
4. Why are we here? Share our experiences Learn from others @javafreekNL @twoxey
5. @javafreekNL @twoxey
6. First attempt Home control box @javafreekNL @twoxey
7. Pivot Energy stick @javafreekNL @twoxey
8. What is Toon? 11 @javafreekNL @twoxey
9. Setup in homes Electricity sensor Gas sensor Meter adapter Quby Energy Display Boiler adapter Central heating boiler Smart plugs and smoke detectors WiFi router Z-Wave Z-Wave Philips Hue @javafreekNL @twoxey
10. The service center Service Center Toon Displays Mobile devices Product Applications Back Office Applications Mobile Backend Internet Internet VPN Access @javafreekNL @twoxey
11. First partnership @javafreekNL @twoxey
12. Exponential growth 2013 30.000 2014 65.000 2015 175.000 2016 350.000 2017 1.000.000 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 @javafreekNL @twoxey
13. What Steve Blank didn’t tell you about scaling up a company Scalable startup Transition Company https://steveblank.com/2010/01/14/a-startup-is-not-a-smaller-version-of-a-large-company/ @javafreekNL @twoxey
14. Success kills technology @javafreekNL @twoxey
15. Challenge 1 @javafreekNL @twoxey
16. Current infrastructure does not scale: Time to market Lack of predictability Problem @javafreekNL @twoxey
17. Solution MARATHON @javafreekNL @twoxey
18. Challenge 2 @javafreekNL @twoxey
19. Problem Current team structure does not scale: Operation team bottleneck Knowledge gap between dev & ops @javafreekNL @twoxey
20. Solution Build and run by developer teams Operations team only manages the platform Monitoring using SaaS (sysdig) Logging (ELK)  SaaS problematic (privacy) CI/CD Tooling @javafreekNL @twoxey
21. Challenge 3 @javafreekNL @twoxey
22. Problem Eneco specific solution No tenant agnostic data model Diverging code-base @javafreekNL @twoxey
23. Tenancy NXT @javafreekNL @twoxey
24. Tenancy NXT SCM repo SCM repo SCM repo component component component NXT Service center NXT Service center NXT Service center NXT Service center NXT Service Center @javafreekNL @twoxey
25. Tenancy NXT NXT Service Center Core Product Premium Services (through provisioning) Configuration Business Rules Styling @javafreekNL @twoxey
26. Challenge 4 Communication with the devices Toon Commands Events Requests @javafreekNL @twoxey VPN
27. Problem >50% of our platform dedicated to VPN service Cascading failures
28. Solution No silver bullet Mix http & message broker (MQTT) Cloud IoT pricing models too expensive Toon Commands Events Requests @javafreekNL @twoxey
29. HiveMQ vs AWS IoT HiveMQ @javafreekNL @twoxey
30. HiveMQ vs AWS IoT AWS IoT @javafreekNL @twoxey
31. What makes IoT different? Device management Focus on economics Lots of technologies and protocols @javafreekNL @twoxey
32. Prepare for change: IoT is not fully solved yet @javafreekNL @twoxey
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