I've been using the particle.io platform for over a year and I've been very pleased with its stability, performance, and features. This is a good first step to

I've been using the particle.io platform for over a year and I've been very pleased with its stability, performance, and features. This is a good first step towards expand their platform as a general IoT device management and data platform. Most use cases benefit from a mixture of light weight nodes like the particle and more compute heavy gateways like the raspi.