Sync & Conflict Resolution
Two devices that both changed the same record while neither could see the other.
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Edge, Mobile & IoT
General material on architecture beyond the data centre boundary.
No content yetMobile App Architecture
Layering, navigation, background execution, and the platform rules you do not set.
No content yetOffline-First
Treating connectivity as an optimisation, with a local store as the source of truth.
No content yetCRDTs
Data types that converge without coordination, and the semantics you must accept.
No content yetMobile Release Strategy
Store review, staged rollout, and supporting versions you can never force off.
No content yetPush & Background Work
Delivery that is best-effort, and an operating system that will kill your process.
No content yetDevice Identity
Identifying a thing rather than a person, and rotating a credential you cannot type.
No content yetEdge Compute Topologies
Regional, metro, on-premises and on-device, and what each tier is genuinely for.
No content yetEdge Functions
Short-lived compute at the CDN, its runtime limits, and what must stay at origin.
No content yetEdge Data Consistency
Replicated read state at hundreds of locations, and writes that still go to one.
No content yetIoT Ingest Architecture
Millions of small, unreliable, frequently duplicated messages arriving continuously.
No content yetDevice Provisioning
Getting identity and configuration onto hardware at manufacture or first boot.
No content yetFleet Management
Inventory, health, configuration and grouping across devices you will never see.
No content yetOTA Updates
Updating firmware over a flaky link, with rollback, and without bricking the device.
No content yetConstrained Protocols
MQTT, CoAP and their kin, chosen for power, packet size and intermittent links.
No content yetDevice Telemetry at Scale
Deciding what a device sends, how often, and what is aggregated before it leaves.
No content yetDigital Twin
A server-side model of a physical thing's reported and desired state.
No content yetEdge Security & Attestation
Secure boot, hardware roots of trust, and proving what is running on a device.
No content yetPhysical-World Failure Modes
Power loss, tampering, clock drift, thermal limits, and a truck through the fibre.
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