Peter Morelli

10 reasons not to use bitdrift: 4, you only care about crashes - bitdrift Blog In this post, the fourth in a series investigating reasons not to use bitdrift, we’ll discuss why crash-free rates and crash reporting tools alone do not constitute a mobile observability strategy.

Your app is 99% crash-free. Great… but are users happy?

Slow checkouts, hanging searches, stuttering playback – p99 issues often invisible to dashboards but obvious in churn.

🔗 Check out our new post on the gap between crash-free rates and actual user experience:

Any of these, or in combo:

Sugar: I usually use carrots, fish them out at the end, or even a bit of ketchup
Fat: Butter or cream mixed in

You could also try a pinch or two of baking soda. haven't done this before, but seen a few articles on it.

What is OpenTelemetry, and what is it not? - bitdrift Blog OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework and software including SDKs, tracing instrumentation, and a universal collector for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry from applications and…

Is OpenTelemetry the foundation for mobile observability? Not really. 🔍

OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...

Announcing feature flag support - bitdrift Blog Introducing feature flag support in bitdrift Capture. Correlate feature flags to issues, filter by variant, and build workflows that react to feature flag exposures.

🚩 New in bitdrift Capture: feature flag support!

See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.

Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

this has always been true. every large tech transition has had the naysayers, as well as the hype guys. I think it's just faster this time.

What are you using for dictation?

beyond the noise - Why Mobile Releases Still Feel Like Chaos, with Runway CEO Gabriel Savit Matt Klein sits down with Gabriel Savit, former iOS engineer and now co-founder & CEO of Runway, to unpack why mobile release processes remain painfully manual and coordination-heavy, even for…

🎙️ New Beyond the Noise episode alert!

Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".

Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

and a great way to lose weight!

How is the world's largest storage system, AWS S3 built? Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up S3 for 13 years (!) S3's scale is something else (tens of millions of hard drives, eleven 9s of durability (!!) and heavy usage of formal methods, amongst others.)

(cont'd)

a man with a bandage on his face is talking on a telephone Alt: a man with a bandage on his face is talking on a telephone

the seahawks look rested, moisturized and hydrated.

the 49ers look:

Every Brock Purdy dropback looks like a scene from 28 Years Later

Stupid niners.

🏈 == 💩

Announcing crash reporting the way it should be: free & full of context - bitdrift Blog Rosalind Lutsky

A traditional mobile crash tool shows you how your app crashed.
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.

Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting

beyond the noise - Scaling Mobile at Uber: Ty Smith on Community, Toolchains, and the Next Dev Productivity Wave Matt Klein sits down with Ty Smith, Principal Engineer at Uber and longtime Android community pillar, to trace a career from tinkering on a Pentium at age six to building at Uber scale. They discuss m...

🎙️New episode alert! Hear @tysmith.me, Principal Engineer at Uber, talk his career path, the coming validation/observability crunch, and the rise of AI-driven development.

Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Wat! Post when you find it, please!

Man, this poor packers kicker.

Thank you!

Episode 429: Michelle McDonald, Coffee in Early America: Why Americans Really Drink Coffee Have you ever wondered why so many Americans drink coffee in the morning? Join us for an exploration of coffee in early America.

Historian Joe Adelman steps behind the mic this week!

His guest? Michelle Craig McDonald, author of Coffee Nation.

They cover smuggling, silver coffee pots, enslaved labor, and why Americans fell hard for coffee.

🎙️ www.benfranklinsworld.com/429

#HistoryPod #CoffeeNerds #FoodHistory #Coffee

beyond the noise - Bazel Keith and the Quest for Better Builds Matt Klein sits down with Keith Smiley, aka “Bazel Keith,” to talk all things Bazel and iOS tooling. Keith shares how hacking on Objective-C in high school, contributing to CocoaPods in college, and j...

🎙️ New Beyond the Noise ep! @smileykeith.bsky.social (“Bazel Keith"), talks Bazel, iOS tooling, and his journey from CocoaPods ➡️ Lyft ➡️ Modular.

Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀

bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Ah yes. SantaCon. 😑

Announcing issue triaging - bitdrift Blog

bitdrift now supports issue triaging:

- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix

Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.

#bitdrift #mobileobservability

blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Yay new @bitdrift.io Beyond the Noise episode with @p-y.wtf. You will not want to miss this one!

add a small amount of crushed or grated garlic, half the sesame oil (it's strong), maybe mirin for sweetness. I like acid, so add a squeeze of lime, or some ACV or white wine vinegar too.

beyond the noise - In Praise of Bugs: P-Y Ricau on the Joy of Breaking Things P-Y Ricau, Principal Engineer at Block and Android legend, joins Matt Klein to discuss 16 years of mobile engineering: from building LeakCanary and early Android tooling to why crash rates miss real u...

🎙️ The newest episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped! Listen to @mattklein123.dev and @p-y.wtf chat about his journey from open source to Block, and why AI introducing so many new bugs may actually be a good thing for curious engineers 🪲

bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Introducing godot support (a.k.a. how we accidentally built an arcade machine) - bitdrift Blog

We started with a simple idea: "Let’s prototype how bitdrift would work on godot". Normal teams would write a PRD. Maybe write a spec.

We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.

Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...

From Droid Days to DraftKings: Hemant Garg on Velocity with Guardrails

🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped!

In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!

Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...

Telemetry on Tap: Mobile Engineering Happy Hour | hosted by bitdrift · Luma You're invited to join the bitdrift team for an evening of food, drinks, and good conversation with other mobile devs! This event is invite-only. RSVP to…

We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.

We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!

Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...

Telemetry on Tap: Mobile Engineering Happy Hour | hosted by bitdrift · Luma You're invited to join the bitdrift team for an evening of food, drinks, and good conversation with other mobile devs! This event is invite-only. RSVP to…

We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.

We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!

Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...