I had the pleasure of guesting on my friend Jesse Liberty's podcast again yesterday, where he allowed me to ramble on about instrumenting and monitoring apps and give a bit of a sneak preview of what we're doing at Olo and what I'll be speaking about at Evolve. Check it out!…

As part of my continued mission to add instrumentation and monitoring into basically everything, Datadog is a tool that I've come to really love. In addition to the built-in metrics it can record, such as things like CPU usage, the real power comes in being able to easily define your own metrics and create meaningful visualizations of the true running state of your systems. At Olo we run a Hubot instance that connects to our Slack…

In addition to how an app looks and what it does, a major contributor to an app's UX is how well it performs. With so much competition and an abundance of high-quality apps available in the app stores, users now have high expectations for apps to be quick and easy to use. Mobile devices also simply don't have the resources you might be used to when working on desktop or Web applications, so it's always important…

Lately I've been doing a lot of work around adding instrumentation to basically all the things, which naturally includes my apps. It's common practice to instrument things on the server-side of the API using awesome tools like NewRelic, but that's only part of the equation. Obviously we need the server to respond as quickly as possible so being aware of that metric is essential, but on top of that the user also has to wait for…