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Every observability tool asks you the same question: what are you looking for? You're expected to know the problems in order to see them. But solutions to that problem borrowed from backend observability break on mobile. Read why + how to do things differently: blog.bitdrift.io/post/unknown...

If you like hot takes you will LOVE this new Beyond the Noise episode w/@beaulbutton.bsky.social, President and CTO of Atlas Reality and Tesoro. Prepare for lots of takes on AI, gaming, and finding your own path. Listen here or on your favorite podcast platform: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

We had an awesome time at the Mobile Engineering Happy Hour last night with our friends from @onepeloton! Huge thanks to everyone who attended. Keep an eye out for future events in a city near you 👀

Ever wondered how Square's mobile eng team handles observability? With > 4 million sellers depending on Square for POS transactions, waiting on crash reports alone wasn't an option. See how they use bitdrift to quickly find the root cause of issues: bitdrift.io/case-study/s...

🎙️ It's our favorite time of week, it's new episode release day! Hear how @crawshaw.io started Tailscale, why he made his way to the US, what he's up to now as CEO of exe.dev, plus the unexpected result of a recent HP printer purchase 😱 Full episode here: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Today @bitdrift.io is really excited to open source blob-stream: a Kafka alternative for no fuss, low cost high volume streaming. I wrote in depth about what blob-stream is, why I made it, and how I made it. blog.bitdrift.io/post/blob-st...

Hear @randyshoup.bsky.social talk growing up in Silicon Valley, going to Xerox PARC with his dad, working at Oracle, Tumbleweed, two stints at eBay, and more in our latest episode of Beyond the Noise Plus, his hot takes on the impact of AI on eng jobs. Listen here👇 bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Matt Klein sat down with Joe Beda, CTO at Stacklok, to discuss questions like: -Will AI follow an S-curve or Moore's law? -Why is K8s open source? -How will startups fare in a world of hyper fast development w/AI? Check out their takes: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

UX signals explain how your app feels. Device performance signals explain how your app behaves. But how do you know *why* bugs happen? That's where application state & context come in. There are a few key contextual signals mobile teams should capture: blog.bitdrift.io/post/mobile-...

"75% of adults in the U.S. are purchasing goods and services through their smartphones" so why skimp on mobile o11y? The answer: you shouldn't! The world runs on mobile, and we exist to make it run a whole lot better. Read the Intellyx article here: buff.ly/15yk6TI

With bitdrift + ClickHouse, you can see even more detail on a production event 👉️ w/bitdrift, you see what happened on the device. w/ClickStack, you see what happened on the backend. w/OTel trace context, you tie the two together. Read more: blog.bitdrift.io/post/clickho...

🚨 New beyond the noise episode! The legend @h.olysh.it talks (literally) shipping Internet Explorer on physical CDs, co-creating Kubernetes, standing up Google Compute Engine, Google vs. Microsoft culture, and more. Full episode here 👇 bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Why is my conversion rate dropping? What sounds like a simple question almost always results in a wild goose chase that will drain hours of your day. With the bitdrift CLI and an agent like Claude Code, you can offload the investigative work. Learn how: blog.bitdrift.io/post/agentic...

🎙️New Beyond the Noise! Charity Majors talks vibe coding, burnout, founding Honeycomb, the changing world of observability, and more. Catch the full episode here: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Mobile observability doesn't have to suck. bitdrift AI gives your agents full-resolution, unsampled access to what's actually happening on customer devices, without waiting for app releases. Start giving your agents the context they need: buff.ly/A8b5Wwm

Your crash reports should surface the metrics you care about, not the ones we ship. Issue workflows let you write a script, run it server-side against a processed report, and emit whatever metric you want. Built on Ripsaw, our VRL fork. Test against a real issue before you deploy: buff.ly/oVlqFzw

bitdrift has joined @clickhouse.com House Mates program as its mobile observability partner. Our new integration pairs bitdrift's on-device capture with ClickHouse-powered storage, connecting the full mobile session to backend traces in one path. Read more: blog.bitdrift.io/post/clickho...

🎙️New Beyond the Noise! Dillon TenBrink runs the edge platform behind 2,300+ Home Depot stores. At that scale, you can't "sling all the metrics all the time." Why constraints force better observability discipline: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

One prompt to instrument your mobile app. Install the bd CLI, add the bitdrift skills, then ask your agent to add the bitdrift Capture SDK and instrument the user journey you care about. Full walkthrough: buff.ly/VR2ikZx

🎙️ New Beyond the Noise! Cedric Beust has been in mobile since the early Android days, now Head of Mobile at JPMorgan Chase. He's here to talk about the gap most mobile teams are still fighting. Spoiler: it's not crashes. 🎧 Full episode: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

We're speaking @droidcon.bsky.social Orlando! Miguel Angel Juárez López and Jackson Hardaker take the stage tomorrow at 10:55am. 🎤 WebViews were a black box for too long. This talk breaks down how Android and Frontend engineers can team up to fix that. 📍 See us at Booth 21. More:

🎙️ A silent bug at Tinder quietly dropped analytics data, with no crash or error to flag it. Aaron He (Tinder) and Matt Klein talk through why bugs like this are some of the hardest to catch in mobile, and why it still happens today even at scale. 🎧 Listen now: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

Most conversion drops end with more tabs open than answers. What if an agent could investigate your funnel and find where it broke? See how bd-cli does exactly that in this walkthrough:

🎙️ New Beyond the Noise is out! From coding bootcamp to a $250K hackathon win to building the AWS Swift SDK, Nicki Stone has had quite the journey. Now she's a Principal Engineer at Amazon, unifying 50 networking stacks and using AI to write specs instead of code. Listen today: buff.ly/PR7AgQs

Debugging one user in Capture used to mean sending a workflow to your entire fleet just to match one person. Entities change that. Call setEntityId() once → sessions, crashes, devices, online history all indexed under one profile. See how it works:

Hatch builds a sleep app. With bitdrift, they now have full visibility into every user's device on demand, and crash investigations are 30-50% faster. They're catching issues before they interrupt the nightly sleep routines of millions. Full case study: buff.ly/MnF6to0

bitdrift is now on AWS Marketplace. - Unlimited telemetry capture, store only what matters - 3D session replay with full crash context - Deploy new workflows without an app update Get started: buff.ly/Ny75jEb

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: 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: blog.bitdrift.io/post/skill-t...

⚡ 1,000,000,000,000 That’s 1T log events written to on-device buffers by bitdrift in the last 24 hours.

🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise! @migueldeicaza.bsky.social, founder of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin and a legend of the open source movement, joined @mattklein123.dev to talk about open source, mobile, and what it takes to build things that last. 🎧 Listen now: bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

New episode of Beyond the Noise 🎙️ 18 years at Google. Now building CI/CD at Vercel. Jay Gengelbach joins to talk scale, mobile observability, and one of the wildest bug stories you'll ever hear. Catch the full episode:

We just shipped OTel-compatible distributed tracing for Capture. When something breaks, you get the trace for that session, not a random sample that may or may not have caught it. Learn more: buff.ly/JZmzNib #opentelemetry #observability

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:

🎙️New Beyond the Noise episode! JP Simard (SwiftLint, Realm, Ramp) joins Matt Klein to discuss why devs are moving beyond IDE-first workflows, how Ramp’s tiny teams ship apps fast, whether AI enables "architect once, implement everywhere," and the iOS vs Android ecosystem split. Listen now:

Introducing the bitdrift Public API: making observability programmable. Create and manage workflows in code. Retrieve unsampled sessions on demand. Integrate bitdrift into your deploy pipelines and on-call workflows – no dashboard required. Learn more: blog.bitdrift.io/post/public-...

At @deepdishswift.com this week! 🍕 Great chats, great swag, and a lot of curiosity about how bitdrift gives mobile teams real-time observability. Thanks for having us and see you next year!

bitdrift is live 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 fast with full‑fidelity mobile observability: blog.bitdrift.io/post/aws-mar...

Thanks Austin! ✨ Great evening with the mobile community at the Mobile Engineering Summit: lightning talks, a panel on performance, reliability & AI, and the kind of energy that makes it worth doing again. Stay tuned for our next Summit in a city near you! 🙌

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:

🎙️ New Beyond the Noise: our first two-guest episode. Lauren Darcey & Eric Kuck (Infinite Retry Labs, ex-Reddit) on mobile at scale: why your team is already on-call without knowing it, the systemic issues you only uncover at millions of users, and so much more: buff.ly/zCtX1uM

🎙️New episode of Beyond the Noise! Matt Klein brings on Kelsey Hightower. Kelsey talks through what AI is doing to developer salaries, what he tells junior engineers wondering if they picked the wrong field, and why open source is the only realistic check on what's being built today: buff.ly/VUD6ktX

Most mobile teams know when a critical flow is degrading. They just can't tell you why. bitdrift follows that journey on-device, without sampling, and surfaces the full context when something fails. Learn more about Critical User Journeys: blog.bitdrift.io/post/critica...

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 wrapping your code in complex stopwatches or shipping a new release. Read more: buff.ly/dPYBxPt

Zuper went from stitching together crash and analytics tools to full on-device visibility across complex mobile workflows. With bitdrift, they now catch issues before they reach customers. Read the full case study:👇

The bitdrift team is hosting the Mobile Engineering Summit on March 26 in Austin! 📍 Join us for lightning talks, a Q&A panel with bitdrift CTO Matt Klein and Favor Delivery CTO Steve Romney, food and drinks, and the chance to connect with fellow mobile engineers. Save your spot now:

📣 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. 🔗 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc... #MobileObservability

🎙️ 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) built the answer: Kubernetes inside of 3,500+ restaurants – one of the industry's largest edge computing deployments. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/WwGszFj

If you've built an Android app in the last decade, you've almost certainly shipped Jesse Wilson's code to your users. 🎙️Our newest Beyond the Noise episode with @swank.ca just dropped – tracing the open-source decisions that shaped modern Android! 🎧 Listen today:

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: