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title: "BITXBIT: Best Tool For The Job, Observability + IoT Device Management, UDP/DTLS Connections | Golioth Newsletter"
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Dan Mangum tells us about how Golioth wants the best experience for our uses and how we find the best tools for the job.

| View in browser TOP OF MIND Best Tool For The Job When building out the Golioth platform, we’re constantly examining the user experience. We ask ourselves why it would make sense to use Golioth over alternative solutions, whether in house or off the shelf. While we want to have the most folks using the Golioth platform as possible, we prioritize the real goal of making it easier for IoT engineers to build secure, efficient, and useful products. We want our users to use the best tool for the job. Let’s dig a little deeper into how we do that.   Click here to read the full post.   Dan Mangum, Cloud Lead dan@golioth.io   Golioth Changelog   We took a short break from compiling to ingest turkey and gravy with family.   SDK ✨ Improved legibility of API documentation CONSOLE 🕹️ Improved user login experience Recent Posts   Adding Cellular to the Hackaday Superconference Badge, Nov 28  Authored by Mike Szczys   The Design-For-Hire Ecosystem, Nov 21 Authored by Chris Gammell   Try Out Zephyr on Golioth’s Combined Firmware SDK, Nov 16 Authored by Mike Szczys IoT News Zephyr Weekly Update – Bringing userspace to Xtensa   Nordic-powered sensor detects the presence of methamphetamine in buildings   Nordic completes world’s first silicon-to-cloud locationing solution using Wi-Fi, cellular IoT, and GNSS From the Community   ICYMI: Webinar In this webinar, Golioth, Memfault and NXP bring observability and device management to IoT devices. Watch the recording (+ get downloaded reference slides) by clicking below.   View the webinar   Community Forum Q: Do you guys clean up UDP/DTLS connections on the server after a time of no activity? If so what’s that magic value?   A: By default, we keep the connection open on the server for 1 hour. However, this is currently assuming the IP address and port of your devices are not changing during that duration. We are moving towards support for DTLS Connection ID’s, which would alleviate that concern.   Read the full post Upcoming Events   Jan 24 \| TRAINING Zephyr January Online Training Most Popular Content   Program your microcontrollers from WSL2 with USB support      Authored by Jonathan Beri   How to Configure VS Code for Zephyr Development      Authored by Mike Szczys   Debugging Zephyr for Beginners: printk() and the Logging Subsystem      Authored by Mike Szczys Have questions? Chat with us! Join our Discord community or check out The Golioth Forums! Golioth, Inc., 548 Market St, PMB 73345, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA, (650) 550-1953 Unsubscribe Manage preferences |
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