In this article, Senior Developer Evangelist at InfluxData, David G. Simmons, discusses architecting a smart IoT gateway using Pine-64 and the TICK Stack. He highlights the importance of getting the TICK Stack up and running on Pine-64, which aligns with InfluxData's "Time To Awesome" promise. The article covers building an IoT gateway, loading testing the device, performing local analytics, and implementing data downsampling for IoT applications.