What 365 days of telemetry data taught us about building in the real world
Most people celebrate growth. We at kompress.ai learnt to read it carefully.
Over the last 12 months, we tracked a simple metric: daily telemetry requests from devices deployed in the field.
This is real-world data flowing in from India, the EU, and the US — from devices running on Kompress.ai infrastructure.
April 2025 → ~570K/day
April 2026 → ~1.05M/day
That’s ~80% growth. Looks great on paper.
But the real story is in the details
Growth wasn’t explosive, it was consistent. No hype spikes. No vanity surges. Just steady, compounding usage across geographies. That’s what real product-market fit starts to look like.
Patterns > Peaks Every week told the same story:
Weekdays → higher device activity
Weekends → predictable dips
When patterns stabilize, your system becomes forecastable. That’s when you can scale with confidence.
- Not all dips mean product problems. A few sharp drops stood out in the data. They weren’t user churn or demand issues. We correlated them to known cellular network provider outage.
A good reminder: When you operate in the physical world, your data reflects the ecosystem, not just your code.
- We’re now hovering around ~1M requests/day. This is where things change:
Efficiency starts to matter more than growth
Margins get tested
Infra decisions become business decisions
Biggest takeaway: Getting to 1M requests/day isn’t the win. Staying reliable and predictable at 1M+ is.
That’s the real game.
Watch your patterns, not just your peaks. And understand what’s actually behind your dips.
Not everything is under your control — but everything is your responsibility to design for.
First published on: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-365-days-telemetry-data-taught-us-building-real-world-utvyakta-buv8c
