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The document outlines a roadmap for becoming an IoT developer, divided into two paths: Embedded IoT Developer and IoT Application Developer. It details essential programming languages, concepts, tools, and technologies needed for each path, including specific frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding various protocols and monitoring tools for successful IoT deployment.

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The IoT Roadmap _ the Daily Grind

The document outlines a roadmap for becoming an IoT developer, divided into two paths: Embedded IoT Developer and IoT Application Developer. It details essential programming languages, concepts, tools, and technologies needed for each path, including specific frameworks, databases, and cloud platforms. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of understanding various protocols and monitoring tools for successful IoT deployment.

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The IoT Roadmap


19.03.2022 — Software, Read, IoT, Roadmap — 3 min read

Road To become an IoT Developer ✔️


I have split this post to 2 road ways :

Embedded IoT Developer 🧑‍💻


IoT Application Developer 🧑‍💻

The Way the road maps are structured are as follows:

Programming Languages
Concepts
Tools

Embedded IoT Developer

Programming Languages 💻:
Embedded C (Must Have)
C++ (Must Have)
Python (Must Have)
Bash Scripting (Nice To have)
Rust (Nice To have)

Those Programming Languages are going to give you a head start to kickstart the embedded journey where C++ and Embedded C are the
bare minimum to get started

Concepts 🧠:
RTOS (Must Have)
IoT Value Chain (Must Have)
IoT Security (Nice To Have)
Wireless Communication (Must Have)
OS Fundamentals (Must Have)
Cloud Computing Basics (Nice To Have)
Linux (Must Have)
Web Services (Nice To Have)
Pub / Sub Systems (Must Have)
Embedded Design Patterns (Must Have)
Networks (Nice To Have)

These Concepts are mandatory in order to be able to work comfortablly developing IoT Solutions.

Tools 🧰:
Platform IO
CMake
Esp IDF
Target Architectures
RISC
CISC

The difference between CISC and RISC Targets should be understandable during development of Embedded IoT Solutions

You Can try the Following Targets / Dev Boards:

Targets
STM32 (Blue/Black Pill)
Esp32 / NodeMCU
Raspberry Pi (Embedded Linux)
BeagleBone (Embedded Linux)
Jetson Nano (Embedded Linux)

To Work with those Targets and get something useful out of them you have to understand the target peripherals which include the
following:

Microcontoller Peripherals 🎮
GPIO
Timers
PWM
ADC
DAC
Serial Communication(SPI,I2C,UART)
Wifi
Memory(Flash,SRAM,EEPROM)
BLE

Here is a High Level Mindmap 🗺️:


IoT Application Developer
For you to become an iot application developer you have to wear a lot of hats and be knowledgable in alot of things , you should not think
that you have to expert at all of these but atleast have some idea on how to work with the following:

Frontend
Backend
Cross Platform Mobile Development (Nice To have)

you can choose from the below frameworks whatever you feel comfortable working with or have worked with before.

Programming Languages 💻:
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
Java

Frameworks
Frontend
React
Angular
Vue
Svelte

Backend

ExpressJS
NestJS
FastAPI
Flask
DJango
SpringBoot
GO

Mobile Technologies
Flutter
React Native

Concepts 🧠
IoT Value Chain
IoT Security
Wireless Communication
OS Fundamentals
Cloud Computing Basics
Linux
Web Services
Pub / Sub Systems
System Integration
Networks
M2M
Design Patterns

For Realtime operating systems you just have to understand how they work and how to deal with event loops because you can work with
one.

RTOS
Mynewt
FreeRTOS
Amazon FreeRTOS
NuttX

For Internet Protocols they are mandatory that you understand how they work with different Architectures, for example client / server or
pub / sub systems

Internet Protocols
HTTP/HTTPS
MQTT
COAP
AMQP

Wireless Technologies
LORA
BLE
WIFI
NFC Industrial protocols are not mandatory but they are nice to have and to understand how they work and if you want to work in the
IIOT space then they will become very important and give you a headstart.

Industrial Protocols
OPC UA
Modbus

Distributed Computing
You should at least know one of the following message brokers to implement distributed computing and asynchronous code execution

Microservices

Message Brokers

Kafka
RabbitMQ
HiveMQ
EMQX
ESB eg. WSO2

You have to know atleast one Relational database, one nosql database and one Timeseries database as well as keystore databases.

Databases
Mysql
Postgresql
MongoDB
Cassandra
Redis Cache
InfluxDB

Time to market is really important to Enterprise companies that's why the use Application Enablement Platform, where they can develop iot
solutions faster and below are the most popular ones in the market varying from open source to fully paid solutions

IoT Platforms(AEP)
ThingsBoard
The Things Industries
Mainflux
ThingsWorx
Losant
ThingsWorks
Cumulocity
Data Cake

Cloud Native Technologies & Tools 🧰


Kubernetes
Docker
Prometheus

Monitoring 🖥️

Monitoring your assets and applications and servers is key to successful IoT deployment and maintenance Grafana is one of the best
monitoring and visualization tools

Grafana

IoT CLoud Providers


There are two types of AEPs One we call as Application enablement platform and one we call as Hyperscalers, Amazon and Microsoft are
conisdered as Market Hyperscalers who enter the cloud and iot space to provide premade services to accelarate your time to market and
development cycle

AWS IOT
AZure IOT

Here is a High Level Mindmap 🗺️:


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