MQTT
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MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport but previously was known as Message Queuing Telemetry Transport.
tl;dr
- Lightweight and Efficient
- Bi-directional Communications
- This makes for easy broadcasting msgs to groups of things
- Scale to Millions of Things
- Reliable Message Delivery(QoS)
- 0, 1, 2
- Support for Unreliable Networks
- MQTT’s support for persistent sessions reduces the time to reconnect the client with the broker.
- Security Enabled
- easy to encrypt msg using TLS
- also support OAuth
MQTT Essentials
MQTT stands for MQ Telemetry Transport. The protocol is a set of rules that defines how IoT devices can publish and subscribe to data over the Internet.