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Ian Craggs

Ian Craggs
Ian Craggs has worked with MQTT since 2002. He has created MQTT client and server implementations, notably in the Eclipse Paho project. He is secretary of the OASIS MQTT standardization committee and worked on the standardization of MQTT 5.0. He is co-chair of the OASIS MQTT-SN standardization committee, and is also contributing to the standardization of Eclipse Sparkplug.

MQTT Vs. HTTP for IoT

MQTT was designed for the Internet of Things (although it wasn’t called that at the time) whereas HTTP was created to make documents available across the internet. They both run over TCP connections, and are both…