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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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App Performance
12 September 2024 • 9 min read

Top 5 podcasts on the future of mobile observability and the impact of OpenTelemetry

The past few weeks have been a testament to the keen interest in today’s trends – and future innovations – for mobile observability. The Embrace team has been busy joining the industry’s most opinionated thought leaders on podcasts for candid conversations around the role mobile plays in the rapidly evolving observability ecosystem. We’ve rounded up our favorites from the Embrace summer podcast tour, with standout takeaways and quotes. If one thing comes across, it’s that proactively understanding how your users are experiencing your mobile applications is a challenge and an opportunity for teams today. Consumer behavior has changed so quickly…can engineering teams keep up? Sit back and tune in – we’ve taken notes for you already.
embrace metrics api
15 August 2024 • 3 min read

See the big picture with Embrace Custom Metrics

Embrace captures all the data from all the sessions of an app. Your Error Logs, successful and failing Network Requests, and screen tap locations are all recorded by the mobile app client. That’s a lot of data. Too much data to be constantly monitoring.
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performance monitoring
11 July 2024 • 2 min read

Analyze all network requests firing within a user flow via Embrace’s latest Performance Tracing update

Embrace's latest upgrade to our performance tracing feature lets engineers see all the network requests that occur in a user flow as individual spans within a larger trace instance. Engineers can now better understand the temporal relationship between network activity and other events within a flow, leading to quicker insights and faster issue resolution.
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.