From Vodafone xone Distinguished Engineer Michel Burger: Creating a platform is a complex and delicate task, and needs to serve multiple purposes, one of the most important being to support and simplify the work of the developers who will be using/consuming this platform. This is particularly true when talking about M2M platform, which is be a very specialized platform. Looking at the device to back end infrastructure communication and integration evolution, it has always been an issue especially when dealing with "small" devices, and most of the time dedicated and domain specific solutions were developed since both the front end (device related) and the back end (digital service related) had to know about the specificity of each other’s in order to create a proper solution. One of the main aspect of a M2M platform will be to remove these dependencies and create a proper set of boundaries which will allow a looser coupling between the devices and the digital services, provide a scalable solution (technically and economically) and create an appealing environment for developer that does not overlap with existing platforms . In the advent of modern integration, a platform implements and exposes APIs that allows a consumer of these APIs (other digital services, app, etc...) to use functionalities without having to worry about how these functionalities are implemented. More on the M2M Platform, extended view of the platform, API exposure and consumption, cloud environment and analytics at frogburger.blogspot/
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:22:06 +0000
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