Entries by Dan Mangum

Golioth Location Private Access

Today we are launching Golioth Location in private access. This service offers network positioning functionality, allowing devices to leverage the same radios (e.g. cellular and Wi-Fi) used for communicating with Golioth to obtain location information. Doing so may extend battery life, reduce hardware costs, and enable more rapid acquisition of a device’s position.

Posting to Bluesky from a Microcontroller

Bluesky has seen a large increase in its number of users over the last few weeks. To learn more about how the AT Protocol works, we set up a Pipeline to allow for microcontrollers to post to Bluesky via Golioth.

NAT is the Enemy of Low Power Devices

If you have ever tried communicating with a device on a private network, you may have encountered Network Address Translation (NAT). Because the number of connected devices has long outpaced the number of unique addresses in the IPv4 address space, public IP addresses have to be shared between devices. This introduces a number of challenges.

The Right Amount of Disagreement

One of my favorite engineering processes at Golioth is our architecture design review. When building new systems, making consequential changes to existing systems, or selecting a third-party vendor, an individual on the engineering team authors an architecture design document using a predefined template. This process has been in place long enough (more than 18 months) […]

Sunsetting Output Streams

It has been over three months since we announced Golioth Pipelines, and we have already seen many users reduce costs and unlock new use cases by migrating to Pipelines. As part of the announcement, we provided options for users who were currently leveraging Output Streams, which offered a much more constrained version of the same […]