Articles by

Dan Mangum

Dan is an experienced engineering leader, having built products and teams at both large companies and small startups. He has a history of leadership in open source communities, and has worked across many layers of the technical stack, giving him unique insight into the constraints faced by Golioth’s customers and the requirements of a platform that enables their success.

Expanding Golioth Location with Gateway-Based Positioning

Less than two weeks after Golioth Location general availability, we have expanded the service to support gateway-based positioning, making it possible to obtain the location of devices that do not have GNSS, cellular, or Wi-Fi capabilities.

Golioth Location General Availability

The Golioth Location Service enters General Availability (GA) today, with some updated and improved functionality, utilizing Golioth Pipelines via a new transformer and destination.

tinymcp: Unlocking the Physical World for LLMs with MCP and Microcontrollers

Today we are launching tinymcp, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and framework that enables any connected device to expose remote functionality to Large Language Models (LLMs).

June 12th, 2025 Incident Report

On June 12th, 2025 a subset of Golioth platform services, including stream and OTA, experienced an outage that impacted customer devices.

New Pipelines Data Destination: LightDB State

A new Pipelines data destination for LightDB State is now generally available for Golioth users and will enable a range of new bidirectional interactions with 3rd party services.

The Taxonomy of Connected Device Networks

As Golioth expands support for devices that are not directly connected to the platform, new concepts and capabilities are required to accommodate networks. This post introduces unmanaged devices, proxying, and impersonation.

The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators

This is a story of the complexities of cellular connectivity, the perils of closed ecosystems, and how to debug what you cannot see.

Golioth Can Now Run Entirely on Qualcomm Modems

Today marks the first implementation of running the entire Golioth firmware stack on a modem processor. This dramatically reduces resource consumption on the external MCU processor, and makes it easier to add Golioth to any hardware or platform.

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