Project Nairobi Update: Progress, Pitfalls, and Lessons Learned
In my previous post, I introduced Project Nairobi, a distributed analytics platform I’m building on AWS to handle IoT data at scale. This time, I want to dive into the progress I’ve made so far—along with the headaches and roadblocks that came along for the ride. What’s New: Our Recent Wins Auto Scaling Group for EC2 A major focus has been setting up an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) for EC2 instances. Having ASG in place lets me spin up or shut down instances as needed without manual intervention. This means I can simulate any number of IoT devices just by adjusting the capacity of the group. IoT Device Simulation on Boot

In my previous post, I introduced Project Nairobi, a distributed analytics platform I’m building on AWS to handle IoT data at scale. This time, I want to dive into the progress I’ve made so far—along with the headaches and roadblocks that came along for the ride.
What’s New: Our Recent Wins
Auto Scaling Group for EC2
A major focus has been setting up an Auto Scaling Group (ASG) for EC2 instances. Having ASG in place lets me spin up or shut down instances as needed without manual intervention. This means I can simulate any number of IoT devices just by adjusting the capacity of the group.IoT Device Simulation on Boot