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Hello all! I'm Yongli Chen, the creator of Shifu Framework, the next-generation Kubernetes-native open source IoT development framework. I used to work at Microsoft AKS - Azure Kubernetes Service for a few years. Before that, I worked at Azure Container Networking and was in charge of Azure CNI - Container Networking Interface. When Microsoft pivoted its strategy from "mobile first, cloud first" to "intelligent cloud and intelligent edge", I started to wonder why and did my research on intelligent edge. Intelligent edge is essentially edge computing. Coincidentally, working at AKS and Kubernetes has become the de facto standard in cloud computing. I started to wonder if we can leverage the power of Kubernetes in edge computing as well. The blocker for edge computing is that it's time-consuming and challenging to develop IoT apps. That's where Shifu comes in... Shifu framework makes developing an IoT app as simple as developing a Web app. The high extensibility of Shifu allows it to integrate almost all devices and protocols. Once a device is integrated, Shifu generates a digital twin of the device as a microservice in the system and opens up device data and capabilities in the form of APIs. In this way, traditional IoT application development is simplified to web development, which greatly improves the efficiency, quality and reusability of IoT application development. You can learn more about Shifu Framework here: github, and join Discord if you have any further questions. Ask me anything about IoT, Kubernetes, Edge Computing, Open Source, and startups. :)