How to scale your projects using the current hardware
We discussed a lot of options for scaling our current setup, starting with using a cloud-hosted MQTT broker, in Chapter 7, Taking Your MQTT Broker Global. In the previous section, we discussed how we can use enterprise IoT platforms for this. But the main drawback of such products is that they are quite expensive and although they do provide customizations, there are always some drawbacks you may face while working on a particular use case.
For this reason, I have added this section as well. This will give you a gentle introduction to all the tools you will need to build an actual product using the existing tools that you have. For maximum customization, you always need to have your own software base, which you will have to develop from scratch. There are several approaches that you can take to achieve this, and, in this section, we will cover a few of them.
So, without further ado, let’s get started.
