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.

mobile app data

7 November 2024 • 6 min read

How time plays a crucial role in aggregating mobile data

Making sense of mobile data, and finding useful signals, requires accounting for the effects of time.

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.