🎙️ 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...

beyond the noise - Miguel de Icaza: GNOME, Mono, Xamarin, and No Sign of Stopping

Matt sits down with Miguel de Icaza, co-founder of GNOME, Mono, and Xamarin, to trace his arc from true-believer GNU fanatic to pragmatic entrepreneur — and his current chapter betting on Godot and…

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New episode is live with one of my role models, @kelseyhightower.com. This is a great chat about the impact of AI on our industry. Check it out!

bitdrift@bitdrift.io · 4mo ago

🎙️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

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:

beyond the noise - Jesse Wilson: From SourceForge to OkHttp, and Why WebAssembly Beats the AI Hype

Matt Klein sits down with Jesse Wilson, one of the most influential engineers in the mobile world, to trace the open source dominoes that shaped modern Android—from pre-GitHub SourceForge projects to…

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

bitdrift@bitdrift.io · 8mo ago

🎙️ 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...

Hi everyone! Today we are thrilled to launch or revamped free tier for @bitdrift.io. For too long crash reporting has been synonymous with mobile observability, which is unfortunate because 99.9% of sessions are crash free. blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

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

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Today @bitdrift.io we are super duper excited to launch when of the coolest features we have ever released: workflow debugging. Our workflows (finite state machines sent dynamically to mobile devices) are extremely powerful but also hard to debug. blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing workflow debugging - bitdrift Blog

bitdrift Capture just got even more powerful: as of today, we’ve added workflow debugging! As we have worked with more and more customers, it has become extremely clear that one of the biggest side-ef...

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Guess what? I started a podcast! I'm not going to lie: I like being a podcast host. 😂 Check out the first two episodes on your platform of choice and there is a lot more to come!

bitdrift@bitdrift.io · 10mo ago

It’s here! 🎙️ Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories & Spicy Takes - our new podcast hosted by Matt Klein. Get the hottest takes from the people building the future of mobile. 1⃣ Lyft & bitdrift origins 2⃣ Instacart & the future of retail tech Listen now:

Big turnout in Boise.

Not going to lie that I'm lazy and much less inclined to go to a protest than I was in my 20s, but the "I hate America" BS is getting me off my ass and then some. See you out there tomorrow!

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 10mo ago

SCOOP: No Kings organizers tell MeidasTouch that RSVPs for the "No Kings" rallies have more than doubled since Mike Johnson and Republicans started attacking them

As we work with more and more customers @bitdrift.io, one of the biggest usability problems that customers face that is inherent in real-time observability ...

New blog from me: @bitdrift.io recently turned 2 and I wrote a short retrospective of some of the things we have learned along the way. Check it out and let me know what you think! blog.bitdrift.io/post/bitdrif...

bitdrift turns 2: a retrospective - bitdrift Blog

Recently, bitdrift turned 2! It’s hard to believe that only 2 years have gone by. Startup years are odd; sometimes it feels like it’s been only 6 months. Other times it feels like it’s been 10 years! ...

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It's been an absolutely epic summer here in Idaho. Sad that it's coming to a close but also starting to get excited for winter!

Super excited to ship fully custom dashboards in @bitdrift.io Capture. Real-time dynamic observability is also about operational agility. 🎉 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing custom dashboards - bitdrift Blog

Today we are extremely excited to announce support for fully custom exploration dashboards inside bitdrift Capture. Real-time dynamic mobile observability is an operational super power, and the abilit...

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Very excited to announce SLO alerting within @bitdrift.io Capture. Because "mobile observability that doesn't suck" should also enable modern SRE best practices. Come and get it! 📈 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing SLO alerting - bitdrift Blog

Today we are extremely excited to announce support for Service Level Objective (SLO) alerts in Capture. SLO alerts are an industry best practice for operating reliable systems and they are now availab...

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Friday treat: coming soon to @bitdrift.io Capture: fully custom dashboards! Because mobile observability can be both awesome and beautiful at the same time. Amazing, right? 🎉

Super excited to launch a small yet mighty addition to the @bitdrift.io Capture workflow engine: timeout actions. This feature allows you to observe things that do *not* happen, something that traditional observability tools simply cannot do. 🚀 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing workflow timeout actions: observing silence - bitdrift Blog

Today we are very excited to launch a small yet extremely powerful addition to the bitdrift Capture workflow engine: timeout actions. Timeout actions unlock an entirely new set of investigations that ...

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As part of our crash reporting launch we refreshed the @bitdrift.io website, and if I do say so myself, it looks amazing. "Because mobile observability shouldn't suck" pretty much says it all. Check it out! bitdrift.io

bitdrift - Because mobile observability shouldn't suck

bitdrift Capture provides real-time views into mobile experiences, without breaking the bank

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Today we are thrilled to launch built-in app crash reporting capabilities inside @bitdriftio Capture! 🚀 You can read more about it in the linked blog, but a short 🧵 on why this launch makes existing mobile observability tools obsolete. 🌶️ blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing crash reporting: why have breadcrumbs when you can have the whole loaf? - bitdrift Blog

Today we are immensely excited to announce the biggest addition to bitdrift Capture in the history of the product: first party crash reporting! At the risk of extreme hyperbole, we believe that the ad...

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This is an important reminder that the red/blue state maps that everyone likes to show are a ridiculous simplification of the people that live all throughout the US. Boise is a fantastic city. Come and visit!

Heather M. Collins🗽@heathersdesk.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

Do you know what this teaser is? It's first party crash reporting support in @bitdrift.io Capture. Do you know what that means? Legacy mobile observability tools are about to be obsolete. So, so excited to ship this. Watch this space! 🚀

Spoke w @mattklein123.dev, Co-founder & CTO of @bitdrift.io, about how hard mobile observability is compared to server-side observability. We discuss privacy control's impact on data collection, the cultural divide between mobile & backend engineers, & @opentelemetry.io. redmonk.com/blog/2025/06...

New from me. Will the Apple payments decision be the turning point for mobile observability? 💰 📈 blog.bitdrift.io/post/payment...

The Apple payments decision: a turning point for mobile observability? - bitdrift Blog

The recent court ruling against Apple that made the app store’s 27% commission on external payments illegal in the US has upended the mobile app industry. Nearly every application developer is moving ...

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Very excited to announce some great new charting features in @bitdrift.io Capture including unique device tracking, multiple group by, and table charts. Blog link in the comments! 📈 📊 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing unique device tracking, multiple group by, and table charts - bitdrift Blog

Today we are excited to announce several new charting features within bitdrift Capture: unique device tracking, dynamic grouping by more than one dimension, and a new table view that streamlines high ...

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All too often beautiful UI is an afterthought in infrastructure tooling. This is a miscalculation as users of these tools are drawn to exceptional design just as much as users of consumer products.

New post from me on the complexity and importance of metric backfill in mobile observability. Backfill is typically an afterthought in traditional server-centric TSDBs, and it is anything but in the mobile world. Enjoy! blog.bitdrift.io/post/mobile-...

The complexity and importance of metric backfill in mobile observability - bitdrift Blog

One of Capture’s most powerful capabilities is the ability to create synthetic counter and histogram metrics from wide logs that never leave mobile devices. This allows mobile developers to log as muc...

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Great post on Android internals. Check it out!

bitdrift@bitdrift.io · last yr.

JankStats + bitdrift = 😍 Read our new post on the challenges of monitoring app responsiveness and how we tackled them by integrating JankStats: blog.bitdrift.io/post/jank-st...

Very, very excited to announce mobile tracing done right for @bitdrift.io Capture. blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...

Mobile tracing done right: introducing dynamic spans & waterfall view - bitdrift Blog

Today we are excited to announce a major expansion of Capture’s ability to understand real user application performance: dynamic session spans and a waterfall view to visualize them. Capture gives dev...

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Coming soon to @bitdrift.io real-time dynamic observability: session span views! Let me tell you why I am so excited for this feature. 🧵

Very excited to announce one of our most requested features for @bitdrift.io Capture: alerting! 🎉 blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...

Announcing Alerting - bitdrift Blog

Today, we're excited to launch alerting support for bitdrift Capture. Capture gives developers a novel twist on traditional observability – empowering devices to intelligently buffer and selectively s...

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New @bitdrift.io Capture feature shipping shortly: the ability to measure the time between 2 logs using a dynamically defined workflow. These are effectively dynamic spans.