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DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and ToolingCould AI End Human QA?Bret is joined by Andrew Tunall, the President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, to discuss his prediction that we’ll all start shipping non-QA'd code (buggier code in production) and QA will need to be replaced with better observability.🙌 My next course is coming soon! I've opened the waitlist for those wanting to go deep in GitHub Actions for DevOps and AI automation in 2025. I'm so thrilled to announce this course. The waitlist allows you to quickly sign up for some content updates, discounts, and more as I finish building the course. https://learn.bretf...
2025-07-2954 min
Product Builders – Interviews About App Development, Product Design, UX/UI and Digital Products30 - Telemetry and Observability Made Simple — with Andrew Tunall, President & CPO at EmbraceIn this episode, we’re joined by Andrew Tunall, President and CPO of Embrace. Andrew breaks down the real-world impact of telemetry and observability, explaining how teams can use these tools to create faster, more resilient product experiences. With a background at New Relic, AWS and now Embrace, Andrew shares how observability is evolving into a product-wide concern — not just an engineering one.We discuss:- Why telemetry is essential for measuring real user performance.- How observability differs from traditional analytics tools.- What forward-looking teams do diff...
2025-07-2837 min
Build To Succeed: Digital Experience Design & Product Development; Flutter, AI & Tech LeadershipAndrew Tunall, Embrace — From QA-Heavy to AI-Ready: Modernizing Product DeliveryOn this episode, we’re joined by Andrew Tunall, whose past roles include VP at New Relic and Technical Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. He is currently President of Embrace, where he leads the company’s product strategy and team operations. Andrew shares his perspective on observability’s growing role in modern app development, how AI is transforming product workflows, and why reliability is a core business value, not just a technical metric. We explore Andrew’s journey from a political science and economics background to leading products at high-growth tech companies. Key Takeaways:
2025-07-2344 min
The MonkCastWhy Engineering Orgs Should be Thinking About Mobile SLOs (w Andrew Tunall)In this RedMonk conversation, Andrew Tunall, President and Chief Product Officer at Embrace, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about the importance of mobile service level objectives (SLOs) in enhancing user experience and performance in mobile applications. They explore the challenges of measuring mobile data, the need for user-centered approaches, and the future of SLOs, particularly with the integration of AI and predictive analytics. The discussion emphasizes the shift from traditional observability metrics to a more user-focused perspective, highlighting the critical role of data in understanding and improving user interactions with mobile applications.
This RedMonk...
2024-12-0223 min
Reliability Enablers#63 - Does "Big Observability" Neglect Mobile?Andrew Tunall is a product engineering leader focused on pushing the boundaries of reliability with a current focus on mobile observability. Using his experience from AWS and New Relic, he’s vocal about the need for a more user-focused observability, especially in mobile, where traditional practices fall short. * Career Journey and Current Role: Andrew Tunall, now at Embrace, a mobile observability startup in Portland, Oregon, started his journey at AWS before moving to New Relic. He shifted to a smaller, Series B company to learn beyond what corporate America offered.* Specialization in Mobile Ob...
2024-11-1229 min
Get With IT75: Extending OpenTelemetry to the mobile ecosystem (with Embrace's Andrew Tunall)This episode of Get With IT was originally recorded and published in June for our other podcast, What the Dev?, and since it's a topic that ITOps teams will be interested in too, we are rebroadcasting it here. Enjoy!In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of ITOps Times, interviews Andrew Tunall, head of product at Embrace, a mobile observability company. They talk about:What it takes to get mobile observability rightThe challenges companies might face when trying to get observability into mobile appsOpenTelemetry's role in mobile observability Access Embrace's open source mo...
2024-08-2914 min
What the Dev?264: Extending OpenTelemetry to the mobile ecosystem (with Embrace's Andrew Tunall)In this episode, Jenna Barron, news editor of SD Times, interviews Andrew Tunall, head of product at Embrace, a mobile observability company. They talk about:What it takes to get mobile observability rightThe challenges companies might face when trying to get observability into mobile appsOpenTelemetry's role in mobile observability Access Embrace's open source mobile observability SDKs here: https://github.com/embrace-io
2024-06-1114 minThe MonkCastA RedMonk Conversation: The State of Mobile Experience (With Andrew Tunall and Virna Sekuj)In this conversation, RedMonk analyst Kate Holterhoff discusses Embrace's State of Mobile Experience Engineering Report with Andrew Tunall, VP and Head of Product at Embrace.io, and Virna Sekuj, Product Marketing Manager at Embrace.io. They review Embrace's research detailing mobile end users' and builders' perspectives of performance issues and app experiences.
This RedMonk Conversation was originally published in video form on July 26, 2023.
2023-11-0625 min
The AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 11 - Full InterviewPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Andrew Tunall, GM, New Relic Serverless & Emerging Cloud Services, discuss the challenges and advantages of distributed tracing.
2020-10-2626 minThe AI+ITOPS PodcastEpisode 11 - Express VersionPodcast Host Andy Thurai of The Field CTO and Andrew Tunall, GM, New Relic Serverless & Emerging Cloud Services, discuss the challenges and advantages of distributed tracing.
2020-10-2615 min