Tuesday, January 27, 2015

IoT: Internet of (Big) Data

The Big Data Mistake In The Internet Of Things
“There is no Internet of Things. There is only the Internet of Data.”

“The key to successfully addressing the IoT market is the ability to rapidly build and evolve apps that tap into, analyze and make smart decisions on fast, big data”,

"if we look more closely into the deeply unsexy world of predictive maintenance on industrial equipment, we will have to contend with massive files that are typically buried and inaccessible after years of being shuffled around by the IT department."

Big Data Now: 2014 Edition (free ebook from O'Reilly Media)

Microsoft += R (Revolution Analytics) Open Source

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics | ZDNet
"Microsoft has acquired Revolution Analytics, a company that develops R programming-language-based analytic solutions for open-source and proprietary big data platforms."

"Revolution Analytics provides an "enterprise-class platform" for developing and deploying R-based analytic solutions that can scale across large data warehouses and Hadoop systems, and which can integrate with enterprise systems"

Microsoft: The open-source company | ZDNet
"Microsoft loves Linux, is adopting Docker for its servers, and just bought Revolution Analytics, the biggest open-source R statistical language company. This is not your dad's Microsoft."

Data Analysis for Developers | Visual Studio Toolbox | Channel 9
describes R and Hadoop as core of Azure toolset.


Cloud Services - Machine Learning | Microsoft Azure


The R Project for Statistical Computing

R (programming language) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
R is a language created by statisticians for statisticians, and it "works".
It is a bit "strange" for computer science oriented people, but since it works...
Most of scientific algorithms are published as open-source R scripts.

R Programming - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

Code School - Try R (free class!)
Completed Try R




Authorization vs Authentication, Thinktecture IdentityServer

thinktecture/Thinktecture.AuthorizationServer @ GitHub

IdentityServer/Thinktecture.IdentityServer3 @ GitHub
"IdentityServer is a framework and a hostable component that allows implementing single sign-on and access control for modern web applications and APIs using protocols like OpenID Connect and OAuth2. It supports a wide range of clients like mobile, web, SPAs and desktop applications and is extensible to allow integration in new and existing architectures.

Watch this for the big picture: Introduction to OpenID Connect, OAuth2 and IdentityServer.
Go to the documenation site.
OpenID Connect specification / OAuth2 specification

IdentityServer is designed as an (Microsoft .NET) OWIN/Katana component. By referencing the library or nuget you get a UseIdentityServer extension method for IAppBuilder that allows setting up IdentityServer in your OWIN host" 
(and it could run on Linux and Mac)


Authentication vs. Authorization @ Microsoft TechNet

  • "Authentication is used by a server when the server needs to know exactly who is accessing their information or site.
  • Authorization is a process by which a server determines if the client has permission to use a resource or access a file.
    Authorization is usually coupled with authentication so that the server has some concept of who the client is that is requesting access"

OpenID Connect | OpenID
"OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It allows Clients to verify the identity of the End-User based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the End-User in an interoperable and REST-like manner."

OAuth 2.0 — OAuth
"OAuth 2.0 focuses on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices."

ASP.NET 4.5 has options for external authentication by Google, Microsoft Live, Facebook.
That is very useful for human users and web application, but for mobile apps there is a need for access control to Web APIs: access authorization based on tokens. 
When there are more than one app or web site granting access to each separately is inconvenient. 
IdentityServer could help.

Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Web API | The ASP.NET Site

Azure Website's "Easy Authentication and Authorization" with Chris Gillum