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4.5.11
The future of observability: https://bitdrift.io
New episode of Beyond the Noise 🎙️
Ryan Cooke, Director of Engineering at Pinterest, on getting metrics IPO-ready, why they ripped out Bazel on iOS, and where AI tooling is: an agent shipped a 3-week migration in 10 hours for one engineer and stalled for another.
🎧 Hit play: https://buff.ly/27kZtdG
Mobile observability's unglamorous prerequisite: getting the SDK in your app correctly.
bd-instrumentation is an agent skill that handles the full bitdrift Capture SDK integration for iOS and Android.
Read the full post: https://buff.ly/lNTggDB
⚡ 1,000,000,000,000
A quick snapshot from bitdrift at scale.
That’s 1T log events written to on-device buffers by bitdrift in the last 24 hours.
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise! @Migueldeicaza, founder of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin and a legend of the open source movement, is our latest guest.
Miguel started GNOME from Mexico, on a project nobody around him cared about. He ended up building some of the most important infrastructure in open source history.
🎧 A career arc worth a listen: https://bitdrift.io/podcast/beyond-the-noise/episode-15
New episode of Beyond the Noise 🎙️
Jay Gengelbach spent 18 years at Google, rising to Principal Engineer. Now he’s at Vercel.
Jay joins to break down a deep debugging story: a recurring server error spike hitting exactly at the top of every hour – eventually traced to Android battery-saver apps batching background requests.
Plus: mobile/server tradeoffs, his take on AI, and much more. Full episode: https://bitdrift.io/podcast/beyond-the-noise/episode-14
We made our mobile observability platform accessible to AI agents.
Once installed, your agent can create and deploy workflows, pull session timelines, triage crash reports, and query performance metrics. All against full-fidelity telemetry from your actual devices, queried in real time.
Learn more at https://bitdrift.ai
When a sleep app breaks, it's the middle of the night. Hatch couldn't reproduce many bugs, so investigations often went nowhere.
🔍 With bitdrift, they see what happened on any device:
→ 30-50% faster debugging
→ 2-3 hrs/week saved per QA
Read the full case study: https://buff.ly/pVqz8Jv
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise episode traces JP Simard’s journey: from building apps in the early days of iOS and Android development to creating SwiftLint, shaping Realm’s database architecture, and now leading mobile at Ramp.
@jpsim@hachyderm.io joins Matt Klein to unpack why developers code in VS Code but compile in Xcode, how tiny teams ship apps fast, and where AI actually helps in cross-platform work.
Listen now on your favorite platform: https://buff.ly/v2sLZcq
bitdrift is officially on AWS Marketplace. 🎉 ☁️
Mobile teams can capture unlimited telemetry at lower cost, store only what matters, and resolve bugs faster. No app update required.
Get started without barriers for faster, full‑fidelity mobile observability.
Find us on AWS Marketplace: https://buff.ly/e4CSztQ
The Capture SDK is now running in 1B real-world environments! 🎉
Traditional observability tools send large volumes of data to centralized systems. Capture stores data on-device, giving mobile teams control over what gets sent and when.
Read how we got here: https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/bitdrift-turns-1-billion
🎙️ New episode! Matt Klein sits down with Lauren Darcey & Eric Kuck (Infinite Retry Labs, ex-Reddit) on what mobile engineering really looks like at scale.
"We were dark deploying to 100% every week and not even aware we were causing problems until users told us days later."
Why mobile on-call is more broken than anyone admits, the systemic issues you only uncover at millions of users, and so much more. Listen here: https://bitdrift.io/podcast/beyond-the-noise/episode-12
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise: Matt Klein brings on Kelsey Hightower.
Anthropic informed Kelsey his book was used to train their model. Users get his content for free. He's is now part of a class action lawsuit.
Kelsey is still optimistic about AI. With conditions attached.
🎧 Listen on your favorite podcast app: https://buff.ly/VUD6ktX
Most mobile teams know when a critical flow is degrading. They just can't tell you why.
A Critical User Journey (CUJ) is the shortest path between a user opening your app and completing what they came to do. bitdrift tracks that entire journey on-device, without sampling, and surfaces the full context when something fails.
Learn more: https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/critical-user-journeys
Most mobile teams log for the crash and stay blind to the jank. Frame drops and silent failures damage ratings quietly.
We wrote about which UX signals to log, and how to measure them without shipping a new release: https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/mobile-logging-ux-signals
Zuper went from stitching together crash and analytics tools to having full on-device context across complex mobile workflows.
With bitdrift, their team now catches issues before they reach customers, debugs faster in production, and finally has the full picture.
Read the case study: https://bitdrift.io/case-study/zuper
📣 Announcing wide availability of bitdrift's Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) for AWS!
Enterprise teams can now choose from 3 deployment options depending on data ownership and compliance needs.
🔗 Full details in our blog post: https://blog.bitdrift.io/post/announcing-byoc
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise!
Chick-fil-A's volume doesn't just stress the kitchen it stresses the tech stack.
Brian Chambers (Chief Architect) helped build the answer: Kubernetes inside of 3,500+ restaurants – one of the industry's largest edge computing deployments.
🎧 Worth your commute: https://bitdrift.io/podcast/beyond-the-noise/episode-10
If you've built an Android app in the last decade, you've almost certainly shipped @jessewilson@cosocial.ca's code to your users.
OkHttp. Original Android team at Google. Square/Cash App. Jess joins Matt Klein on 🎙️ Beyond the Noise to talk about how it all happened – and why he's more excited about the future of WebAssembly than anything AI.
🎧 Listen on your favorite podcast app: https://bitdrift.io/podcast/beyond-the-noise/episode-9
Over 10 years at Uber, Phil Rabin watched the mobile app grow into a codebase adding ~1MB of compiled code per week – putting the team weeks away from App Store download limits. That's when they realized no refactoring would save an architecture that couldn't scale. Today at SoFi, Phil runs one of the world's largest Flutter apps and is hitting familiar walls.
🎙️ Latest Beyond the Noise episode: what breaks at scale & why mobile dev problems from 2015 still exist: https://bitdrift.io/podcast/beyond-the-noise/episode-8
Is OpenTelemetry the foundation for mobile observability? Not really. 🔍
OTel standardizes backend telemetry, but mobile has different constraints. Instead of streaming telemetry constantly, bitdrift stores it on-device and retrieves what you need, when you need it.
The workflow: Users in a region report slow checkouts → query affected sessions → enable tracing for that cohort → correlate with backend. No app release required. ⚡