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The Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) and the MQTT Protocol (OASIS chose to no longer expand the acronym) are often seen as mutually exclusive choices, especially in the Internet of Things (IoT) realm.

MQTT started as a lightweight companion protocol to IBM’s MQ messaging middleware for allowing easy integration of industrial equipment with each other, and with backend enterprise systems (via MQ). It has a strong focus on minimal wire footprint. The “TT” stands for...

The “Internet of Things” (IoT) is “big” and “confusing”. An important source of that confusion is that there are a myriad of perspectives on this space, and you’ll hear every technology vendor tell a story from their own vantage point. And the trade press will unfortunately parrot these narratives without providing much further organization.

A cloud platform vendor tells a cloud story, vendors who want to sell you hardware will tell you an “edge” (as...

In the last week of 2016, my wife and I returned the U.S. Permanent Resident Card (the “Green Card”) to the U.S. government, ending 9 years of long-term permanent resident (LPR) status in the U.S.

Even though it would be convenient to say so, this isn’t a political statement based on the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections.

In September 2012, we had already moved back to Germany from Kirkland (near Seattle; lived there for...