IoT Ingest You Own: MQTT With Mosquitto on Kubernetes

A data platform that takes in device and sensor data needs a way to receive it that suits how those devices actually work: small, intermittent, often on flaky networks, sometimes a microcontroller with kilobytes of memory. That is what MQTT is for, and the Kafka backbone from earlier, while excellent for the platform&rsquo;s internal event log, is the wrong shape for talking to a thousand sensors…