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The One Where We Geek Out on Mobile App Observability with Austin Emmons of Embrace Mobile
Description
About our guest:
Austin Emmons is an iOS Developer at Embrace Mobile, a company that works on Observability for mobile applications and beyond. Austin has been developing for Apple platforms since the early iOS days. Outside of tech, he enjoys mountain biking, rock climbing, and taking his dog, Nacho, on new adventures.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
- Objective-C
- Swift
- Libby
- React Native
- Unity (Game Engine)
- OpenTelemetry Swift
- OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions
- Join CNCF Slack
- OTel Client Side Telemetry SIG channel on CNCF Slack
- OTel Android SIG channel on CNCF Slack
- OTel Swift SIG channel on CNCF Slack
- Nacho Bonafonte (Swift SIG maintainer)
- OTel End User SIG channel on CNCF Slack
Additional notes:
Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, fellow geeks! Welcome to Geeking out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today, I have Austin Emmons. Welcome, Austin.
AUSTIN: How's it going?
ADRIANA: Not bad. Super happy to have you here.
AUSTIN: Happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
ADRIANA: And where are you calling from?
AUSTIN: I'm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
ADRIANA: Awesome. Well, are you ready for the lightning round questions?
AUSTIN: Yeah, let's do it.
ADRIANA: Okay, first question. Are you a lefty or a righty?
AUSTIN: Righty.
ADRIANA: Okay. Do you prefer iPhone or Android?
AUSTIN: I'm an iOS developer, so iPhone. I get tempted every, every time Google comes out with a new Pixel. I'm definitely tempted, but I have to say iPhone.
ADRIANA: Cool. Do you prefer Mac, Linux, or Windows?
AUSTIN: Mac my entire life. And I got made fun of a lot in college when I showed up to computer science with a MacBook and I was just like, well, I'm, I'm, I'm dual booting Windows when I need to, but I would get out of that as soon as possible because I just, I would. Yeah, I had to hack together a lot of stuff just to get Java compiling and every