Colin Contreary
Colin Contreary is the head of content at Embrace. He brings 16 years of writing experience across comedy, musicals, and technical writing. Colin has been with the Embrace team since 2020. His passion for technology makes him a notable member of the team. He has self-taught web development skills that support his technical writing.
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                    Engineering
                
            
            
                    
                3 July 2024 • 8 min read
            
        Enhancing storage efficiency and reducing storage costs with s3-batch-object-store
            
            Embrace reduced storage costs by 70% by creating an open source module for efficiently storing and retrieving objects from a single file in S3.
        
        
    
    
                
                    ClickHouse
                
            
            
                    
                28 June 2024 • 11 min read
            
        Solving large logs with ClickHouse
            
            Embrace engineers share a few key learnings from supporting larger log sizes, including working around a current limitation in ClickHouse and testing several skip indices to optimize query performance and storage cost.
        
        
    
    
                
                    press release
                
            
            
                    
                11 June 2024 • 4 min read
            
        Embrace and Grafana Labs sign go-to-market agreement to bring modern observability based on OpenTelemetry to mobile apps
            
            Go-to-market agreement enables full-stack observability with unparalleled visibility into mobile user experiences to SREs, DevOps, and mobile developers
        
        
    
    
                
                    Open Source
                
            
            
                    
                15 May 2024 • 6 min read
            
        Why Embrace is leading the way in OpenTelemetry for mobile
            
            Embrace is modernizing full-stack observability by providing open source, portable, and extensible mobile frameworks to OTel for site reliability and developer teams.
        
        
    
    
                
                    alternatives
                
            
            
                    
                14 May 2024 • 10 min read
            
        App Center Retirement: Top Alternatives for Mobile Teams in 2025
            
            App Center is going away, but your mobile app isn't. Check out several alternatives so you can continue building and shipping incredible mobile experiences.