ThingWorx 8.5 Sizing Guide
Sizing is a very important part of the application design process, answering such questions as: how much hardware is required? What specifications does this hardware need to handle the expected load? And therefore, what is the overall cost of setting up and maintaining the ThingWorx environment? Properly sizing the environment before development begins ensures that there are no unexpected costs or limitations to application functionality later on down the road.
"Hardware sizing is driven by many factors - some more easily calculated than others", as stated in the new ThingWorx 8.5 Sizing Guide. "Measures like data streaming frequency (the data ingestion component)
and HTTP request volume (the data visualization component) are easily
calculated... However, sizing considerations for the data processing component of the
application can depend largely on business use cases and application design."
Enterprise-Ready applications have the capacity to handle all aspects of an IoT application, from data ingestion and processing to data visualization, as detailed in the friendly infographic above, which many will recognize from LiveWorx. Inside the ThingWorx 8.5 Sizing Guide, there are formulas designed to help size the more analytical aspects of the application, as well as descriptions of other factors and how they (conceptually) play a role in sizing.
There are also two application design examples which step the reader through the calculations, the comparisons, and the selections of hardware for each use case. New in this version, these examples have been simulated in the real world to prove that the theory behind these calculations is sound, and to demonstrate the full process of designing, sizing, and testing an application.
One of the examples (shown here) sizes a Connected Product Solution, something which has many, many remote things in the field, each writing to the Platform at a slower rate, for consumption by a large number of general users, who don't access the same mashups many times nor refresh their view very often. The second example is much more complex, modeling an industrial use-case, where there are many different kinds of users each accessing the mashups many times, fewer things, and more variations in the types of properties each thing possesses. These examples are designed to help anyone with any use case step through the sizing of their application properly.
Please check out the new ThingWorx 8.5 Sizing Guide, especially because each version of ThingWorx is different and must be sized accordingly. Comments and questions about the guide are very welcome right here on this thread!
