A List of 30+ Apache Kafka Performance Benchmarks (2020–2023)

Alex Khizhniak and Carlo Gutierrez

January 1, 2024

Explore evaluations of Kafka’s performance on various cloud platforms, as well as benchmarks against other messaging tools.

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Rule-Based Stream Data Processing at the Edge with eKuiper

Carlo Gutierrez and Alex Khizhniak

October 3, 2023

Governed by LF and designed to shift data analytics closer to devices, this lightweight IoT tool is actively advancing toward v2.0.

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A Collection of 20+ MQTT Broker Performance Benchmarks (2020–2023)

Alex Khizhniak and Yaroslav Goortovoi

August 2, 2023

What are the latencies and throughput of Mosquitto, VerneMQ, EMQX, NanoMQ, HiveMQ, RabbitMQ, FlashMQ, ActiveMQ, etc.?

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Industrial IoT in Manufacturing: Major Pains for a CTO to Address

Alex Khizhniak, Andrea Di Stefano, and Sophia Turol

July 12, 2023

Aiming for operational improvements, manufacturers are struggling with system complexities. Is there a way out?

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LF’s Project Alvarium: Ensuring Trusted IoT Data at the Edge with DLT

Yaroslav Goortovoi and Alex Khizhniak

May 24, 2023

Supported by Dell, IOTA, Intel, etc., this open-source project assigns trust scores to sensor data, using distributed ledger as immutable storage.

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Alternatives to Google Cloud IoT Core—Where to Migrate?

Alex Khizhniak

April 26, 2023

Google will sunset its IoT Core on August 16, 2023. Some of the edge devices may become unavailable, experts say.

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46% of Medical IoT Devices Have a Vulnerability, a New Study Reveals

Yaroslav Goortovoi and Alex Khizhniak

April 17, 2023

For 53% of institutions, breaches in connected systems affect patients—e.g., lead to delayed surgeries or transfers to other facilities.

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What Can We Learn from Stanford Hospital’s Use of IoT and Data?

Alex Khizhniak

March 23, 2023

By investing $2B in innovations, the medical institution is creating a smart hospital—still, facing technological issues on this journey.

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The Challenges of Implementing Data-Driven Personalized Healthcare

Alex Khizhniak

March 1, 2023

While innovation and EHRs enable more patient-centric care, ensuring interoperability and providing in-home care can be tricky.

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Barriers and Guidelines to Adopting Wearables in Sports

Andrea Stefano

December 21, 2022

Athletes can rely on sensors to assess performance, but device adoption comes with technical and compliance challenges.

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