IoT
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April 2, 2026
IoT Architecture Patterns: From Edge to Cloud
Explore proven IoT system architecture patterns — device connectivity, edge processing, MQTT brokering, and cloud ingestion pipelines built for scale.
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Codewave Labs
Codewave Labs Engineering Team
Designing a robust IoT platform means making the right choices at each layer of the stack: the constrained device, the gateway, the message broker, and the cloud backend.
We examine three real-world patterns we have used at Codewave Labs: a direct-to-cloud model with AWS IoT Core, a local MQTT broker (Mosquitto) with cloud bridge, and a full edge-compute architecture using a Linux gateway running containerised workloads.
For each pattern we discuss trade-offs in latency, offline resilience, security surface, and operational complexity.
We examine three real-world patterns we have used at Codewave Labs: a direct-to-cloud model with AWS IoT Core, a local MQTT broker (Mosquitto) with cloud bridge, and a full edge-compute architecture using a Linux gateway running containerised workloads.
For each pattern we discuss trade-offs in latency, offline resilience, security surface, and operational complexity.