# What 365 days of telemetry data taught us about building in the real world

Most people celebrate growth. We at [kompress.ai](https://www.utvyakta.com) 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](https://www.utvyakta.com) 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

1.  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.
    
2.  **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.

3.  **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.

4.  **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