IoT Editor's Day Silicon Valley: Solving the Middleware Problem with WSO2

Application development is an interesting process, and unlike almost any other type of coding.

Apps are not written with a traditional logic language, like other code, according to Jonathan March, VP, Strategy at WSO2, a Silicon Valley enterprise software company. Instead, they are composed – and that raises a problem.

We sat down with March at IoT Evolution Editor’s Day in Silicon Valley, where we met with many of the Left Coast’s biggest brains in the IoT. (Editor’s note: We plan to do another one of these on the east coast sometime soon, but the next time to get face to face with me will be at the IoT Evolution Expo, January 25 to 28 in Ft. Lauderdale. See you in the sand.)

The problem is one of middleware. It’s time consuming to build, and complicated to get right, and that’s why WSO2 makes an out-of-the-box middleware platform for app developers looking to leverage IoT, M2M or any other type of application. The WSO2 platform speeds up innovation by integrating Apache and other open source projects, makes solutions more affordable for developers by eliminating licensing costs, and adds flexibility in configuring and extending the open source code to meet your requirements.

“We’ve found a better way to build middleware by building connection,” March said. “A powerful digital middleware platform delivers apps that integrate systems and that’s what we do.”

The end result is a real-world solution to building apps that make the IoT work. And that’s something that we can all agree come to the middle on.