Originally published at: Here's to 2023! - Golioth
The end of the calendar year is a great time to reflect on what matters most from the past year. In 2022 the growth of the Golioth platform exceeded our expectations—both in terms of new customers and in terms of new features. We found that much of our growth was driven by the customers joining the platform. The acid test of supporting responsive hardware and firmware developed by talented engineers from myriad industries guided how we added features and improved functionality. Let’s take a quick look at some of the things that developed throughout the year. Device capabilities Golioth doesn’t actually make any hardware or firmware for sale. This is confusing to people sometimes, because it’s so prominently featured on our blog and main website. But it’s actually because the hardware examples and firmware repositories make it extremely simple for engineers to get their devices connected to the Golioth Cloud. Here is a sampling of the things we created or updated this year: The Golioth Zephyr SDK – The Golioth Zephyr SDK was our first and most popular. It enabled devices like the nRF9160, the iMX RT1060, the ESP32, the nRF52840, and a wide range of other devices supported by the Zephyr Project. Now on version 0.5.0, we saw big improvements throughout the year that simplify the network and platform connectivity for the user. (This was especially true with the major release of version 0.4.0.) The Golioth Espressif SDK – In July we officially released the Golioth ESP-IDF SDK. This implemented native support for the ESP-IDF, Espressif’s customized Real Time Operating System (RTOS) built on top of FreeRTOS. This enables all of the features and parts in the Espressif ecosystem…