What is MQTT? | Cedalo's Roger Light

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What is MQTT? Roger Light, Senior Developer at Cedalo and inventor of Mosquitto, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss the MQTT protocol in IoT. They talk about the best uses cases for MQTT, alternatives to MQTT, the differences between MQTT brokers, MQTT security, how MQTT fits in the IoT journey, and the future of MQTT. Roger Light is the inventor of open-source Mosquitto (the leading MQTT broker in the world with more than 500 million Docker pulls), and he is the Senior Developer of Pro Mosquitto at Cedalo GmbH. Additionally, Roger is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering at The University of Nottingham. Since its founding in 2017, Cedalo has been a reliable partner for the global development community. They have stood behind the well-known Mosquitto and Streamsheets open source projects by delivering high-quality and industrial grade versions of them to market with premium support. Currently, they are committed to further developing their Pro Edition for Eclipse Mosquitto and Pro Edition for Streamsheets so that customers can build modern software solutions without breaking their budget. Discover more about MQTT and IoT at https://www.iotforall.com More about Cedalo: https://cedalo.com (00:00) Intro (00:11) Roger Light and Cedalo (00:39) What is MQTT? (01:44) MQTT alternatives (02:36) Best use cases for MQTT (04:06) What differentiates MQTT brokers? (06:12) MQTT security (08:18) Who are the MQTT stakeholders? (09:34) Challenges in MQTT and IoT (11:07) Future of MQTT (13:20) Learn more and follow up SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHANNEL: https://bit.ly/2NlcEwm Join Our Newsletter: https://www.iotforall.com/iot-newsletter Follow Us on Social: https://linktr.ee/iot4all Check out the IoT For All Media Network: https://www.iotforall.com/podcast-overview

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What is MQTT? Roger Light, Senior Developer at Cedalo and inventor of Mosquitto, joins Ryan Chacon on the IoT For All Podcast to discuss the MQTT protocol in IoT. They talk about the best uses cases for MQTT, alternatives to MQTT, the differences...

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