= Ad Hoc Network!
  
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The "data collector" is a lightweight microservice application that collect and sends metadata, collected from a system, such as an IoT network, distributed system, data center, etc to a storage system.


* The data are transmitted, stored, and can be retrieved at any time.

*"data collector"* are developed with a platform agnostic"container-based application strategy

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A platform-agnostic approach offers many choices

* Can be seamlessly moved from local development machine to production deployments

* Flexibility, Reliability

** Avoiding Vendor Lock-In

* From Code to full-blown systems

** from a single container on your local machine

** to a running cloud native - container-based environment
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