Embrace Open Source Roundup

The Embrace Swift SDK is built to provide an aggressively-performant collection and transmission layer for iOS, MacOS and other Apple applications while remaining lightweight and easy to use and instrument. To support those ends, we make sure to use the best component libraries for app-specific needs like crashes and data compression.

KSCrash

KSCrash is the industry-standard crash reporting library, originally built as an open-source side project and now in use by vendors and development teams alike. Our team has added pull requests to, among other things:

• expand the types of exceptions the reporter captures at all layers of application code
• make the reporter backwards-compatible for older versions of Swift and Objective-C apps
• ensure thread-safety for backtraces.

DataCompression

Additionally, Embrace makes use of the DataCompression library, which acts as a libcompression wrapper for the Swift Data type. We’ve made contributions to ensure the library will work for less-common Apple platforms like VisionOS, and to support importing the dependencies into projects via Cocoapods, a common Apple dependency manager.

Gradle

Gradle is the preferred, open-source build system for Android apps. It’s in use in nearly all Android applications, as a way of adding packages from one or many sources to your app.

In addition to open-sourcing our own Gradle plugin for the Embrace Android SDK, we contributed release notes to the latest major version release of the build system itself!

Vite

Web apps use Vite to build their frontend applications as quickly and seamlessly as possible. With a host of plugins for every purpose, Vite is made to be flexible for every purpose.

To ensure the speed of Vite could push along a modern-web test runner, we updated the peer dependencies of the runner

Embrace uses an open-source version of Clickhouse as an important component of our telemetry databasing and processing. In particular, we make use of Clickhouse’s Go libraries for optimized data retrieval and reporting.

We contributed back reader and writer methods for the compression methods, which will help other developers who are optimizing memory in their infrastructure. In fact, the latter pull request inspired a follow-up from the community, pointing to the usefulness of these contributions.

Our team’s broader focus is, as always, on driving production-grade mobile and web SDKs and APIs within the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Recently, we’ve made a number of high-level contributions to OTel projects, including:

• orchestrating the release of OTel-Swift version 2.0.2, which fixed key exporter issues
• enable disk buffering by default in the Android Demo project
• adding a modernized Kotlin translator to the OTel-Android project
• cleaning up the OTel-Javascript project for web-specific use cases

Embrace continues to lead the way on OpenTelemetry for user-facing applications, in order to empower developers to make sense of production data that affects the people using their applications. Want to get involved? Join the Swift, Android, or Javascript Special Interest Groups and lend your expertise!.