Ditto in a nutshell

since version 3.0.0, Ditto provides a web UI

History

• Eclipse Ditto was open sourced 08/2018 by Bosch.IO
• then, already used productive at Bosch.IO (as a SaaS)
• out of Eclipse incubation with 1.0.0 in 12/2019
• every 3-5 months a release since then
• Bosch.IO announced (10/2022) shutdown of their SaaS offering for mid of 2024
• Bosch reduced resources on Ditto development since then
• projects at Bosch still using SaaS service migrated to Ditto
• most contributions are now from outside of Bosch

Stats

* officially declared, we know of more

Achievements - Releases

• 3.2.0 (03/2023): History API (retrieve things at given time from the past); stream all historical changes
• 3.3.0 (06/2023): Revived Ditto Helm chart (moved from IoT Packages to Ditto repo, added lots of config options); improvements to PATCH APIs

Release 3.4.0 (10/2023)

• exchanging main dependency "Akka"
  with "Apache Pekko"
• reason: Akka license change from ASL-2.0 to BSL-1.1
  • Ditto heavily relies on the Akka toolkit
  • fork of Akka under Apache-Foundation with name "Apache Pekko" was done and released
• other small enhancements as well

Release 3.5.0 (01/2024)

• search in the history of a thing
• configure per namespace which fields to index in the Ditto search index
• expose configured count queries as Prometheus metrics
• show policy imports in UI; enhance UI to perform devops commands; several usability improvements
• improve stability in Kubernetes when doing rolling updates

Project health

Contributions

Ditto receives more (big) contributions from non-committers, e.g.:

• Configure on a namespace basis the fields to index in the thing-search by Ditto adopter Synamedia
• many UI contributions from @thfries (private contributor)
• MQTT related and operational contributions from @dimabarbul, working for Lohika

Achievements - Blog posts

• HiveMQ (one of their customers was willing to replace Azure IoT Hub with HiveMQ and Ditto):
  • HiveMQ and Eclipse Ditto: Friends or Foes?
  • Hands-on Guide to Using MQTT and Eclipse Ditto for Digital Twins
• Integrate Eclipse Ditto Things in an Asset Administration Shell Environment (published today)

Blog post:
Ditto Benchmark (09/2023)

• Bosch.IO performed an extensive benchmark
• based on Ditto deployed together with Apache Kafka in Kubernetes on AWS, with Atlas MongoDB (DBaaS)
• benchmark toolkit was open sourced in the Ditto GitHub repo
• scenario with 1.000.000 things showed horizontal scalability capabilities

Roadmap

we have to deal with reduced resources for Ditto development

Short term (next major release):
WoT (Web of Things) enhancements

• validation/enforcement of WoT models: #1650
• updating WoT model versions: #1843
• enhancements of the UI, e.g. providing templates based on WoT actions when sending messages

* disclaimer: the "roadmap ideas" are based on what I, working for a company using Ditto, need from Ditto

Roadmap - Long term

It's up to us all

let's shape the roadmap as a community, without one single company dictating it