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On mobile devices, the lifetime of a process that backs an instance of an app isn’t necessarily mapped to its usage lifecycle. Even if you ignore implementation details like Android’s process forking and specialization via zygotes, the app process is often already created when a user taps on the app icon to launch the app,…
Lets get something straight. Observability isn’t the same as monitoring. Yes, both are powered by telemetry collected from production that are crunched down into metrics, shown as some sort of time-series, graph, or table of numbers. But the key difference is that o11y requires flexibility in aggregation, and on mobile in particular, o11y should give…
The Observability-Free Zone For most companies, “mobile observability” is a misnomer. I say this because the data that most mobile devs have to “observe” their app in production is laughably simplistic. The vast majority make due with basic crash tracking and precomputed metric aggregates as the only lens into how their app is performing in…
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