DOP 283: OpenTelemetry Meets Mobile

Episode 283

Show Notes

#283: Moving beyond the usual suspects in observability, today’s focus shifts towards mobile—a relatively unexplored domain for OpenTelemetry. The integration of OpenTelemetry with mobile applications opens new avenues for mobile app observability.

In this episode, Darin and Viktor talk with Austin Emmons from Embrace about the need for educating developers about the value of instrumentation and how OpenTelemetry can significantly aid in performance monitoring and diagnostic efforts for mobile applications.

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Guests

Austin Emmons

Austin Emmons

Austin Emmons is a lead iOS engineer at Embrace. He has over a decade of experience in engineering, with 10 years in iOS, five in Android, and four in Ruby. Austin joined the Embrace team in 2022 and has become an integral part of the iOS team. Before joining Embrace, he worked at Root Insurance and Modo Labs. For the last 5 years, he’s been focused on collecting high frequency data on the Android and iOS platforms.

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Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic

Viktor Farcic is a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and published author.

His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

He has published DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development.

His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog The DevOps Toolkit.