David Rifkin

Developer Relations Engineer

David Rifkin is a developer relations engineer at Embrace. He brings eight years of experience as an iOS educator and engineer. Before joining Embrace, David worked as a mobile engineer at FanDuel, served as a lead iOS instructor at Pursuit, and held both engineering and product roles at Forbes.

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observability

18 April 2025 • 4 min read

The view from London: KubeCon Europe 2025

Embrace spent time at KubeCon discovering that people are using OpenTelemetry in all sorts of ways, but maybe not around users.

grafana

2 January 2025 • 8 min read

Building a mobile SLO with Embrace and Grafana

Engineering teams use mobile SLOs to monitor user flows and ensure user-impacting issues are detected and resolved quickly. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use Embrace, in combination with Grafana, to build and monitor mobile SLO for your app – from initial app instrumentation, all the way to connecting to backend dashboards and alerts.

grafana

24 June 2024 • 4 min read

Embrace and Grafana Labs: Bringing the mobile app into your modern observability solution

Enable full-stack observability with unparalleled visibility into mobile user experiences.

iOS

8 May 2024 • 3 min read

Embrace’s iOS SDK is built on OTel, but what does this mean?

Embrace’s open source Swift SDK was re-architected from its foundations to use OpenTelemetry conventions and signals.

Open Source

24 April 2024 • 5 min read

Android OpenTelemetry exporter walkthrough

Learn how to use Embrace's OpenTelemetry SDK distribution to instrument traces in your app and export them to an observability backend.

Open Source

24 April 2024 • 6 min read

iOS OpenTelemetry exporter walkthrough

Learn how to use Embrace's OpenTelemetry SDK distribution to instrument traces in your app and export them to an observability backend.