99% of this architecture is needed to spy on users. And spying makes tons of money, sooo worth it?

That's much, much worse than this diagram is the part where they are proud to show it off.

One is called Client Eastwood but they named it Golden Gate not Bill Gate ...

I don't understand this nextgen devops. Bring back the KISS principle!

If I was going light and HVAC operations for a corporate campus, yeah, okay … I can conceive that this is a solution I’d be working with

"it looks bad"

I could not keep my eyes open :s

Lol.

Luckily the Hue lights also works without any internet connectivity. And because of the open on-device-API, you can also hook up your own server. This infrastructure is for millions of users who will complain if the standard setup doesn’t work.

"Obviously we simplified the whole infrastructure to highlight the key components"