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Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesJesse Wilson: From SourceForge to OkHttp, and Why WebAssembly Beats the AI HypeIn this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with Jesse Wilson, one of the most influential engineers in the mobile world, to trace the open source dominoes that shaped modern Android. Jesse starts in the pre-GitHub era, open-sourcing a Swing UI project to bring iTunes-style search and filtering to boring business software, then explains how that single choice created career gravity: Nike, a cold email to Java collections author Josh Bloch, and a fast jump into Google’s early growth years. From there, he dives into Guice, Android’s “cowboy” early culture, and the moment that lit the...
2026-02-241h 00Beyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesMore Code, More Problems: Keeping Mobile Apps Fast, Small, and Reliable with Phil RabinPhil Rabin, Engineering Director at SoFi, joins Matt Klein to trace a career that starts in the wild west of early web dev - ActionScript, Flash, IE6 hacks, and DIY “learn it from books” grit - and lands at the sharp edge of modern mobile platform engineering. Phil shares how a government broadcaster in Canada nearly built “Spotify before Spotify,” what it felt like to watch the world pivot from web-first to mobile-first, and why the frontend/mobile craft is still wildly underestimated in complexity.Phil discusses what it was like in the early days at Uber: building...
2026-02-1052 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesWhy Mobile Releases Still Feel Like Chaos, with Runway CEO Gabriel SavitIn this episode, Matt Klein sits down with Gabriel Savit, former iOS engineer and now co-founder & CEO of Runway, to unpack why mobile release processes remain painfully manual and coordination-heavy, even for world-class teams. Gabriel traces his path into mobile: from a scrappy, early startup experiment, to building an iPhone-powered “flight computer” for a DIY drone air-traffic-control project, to shipping at scale at Rent the Runway. Gabriel talks about how his experience with endless release runbooks, Slack ping-pong, rotating “release captain” dread, and the haunting realization that updating the checklist doesn’t fix the underlying chaos led to the creation o...
2026-01-2648 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesScaling Mobile at Uber: Ty Smith on Community, Toolchains, and the Next Dev Productivity WaveIn this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with Ty Smith, Principal Engineer at Uber and a longtime pillar of the Android community, to trace a career that started with tinkering on a Pentium at age six and accelerated through an unusually deep high school CS track, full-time engineering work during college, and early wild west Android days shipping apps when the toolchain was still a mess of platform bugs and improvised best practices. Along the way, Ty shares how devrel mentors helped him overcome public-speaking nerves, why Android’s community spirit has historically felt stronger th...
2026-01-1257 min
Scaling DevToolsMatt Klein - cofounder of Bitdrift: meeting developers where they are and early days of AWSIn this episode, Matt Klein (Bitdrift, Envoy) reflects on building EC2 in the early days of AWS, the reality behind AWS’s origins, and what Amazon’s customer obsession looks like from the inside. He then dives into creating Envoy at Lyft, the challenges of open source at scale, and spinning Bitdrift out of Lyft to focus on mobile observability. He shares how to meet developers where they are and what it takes to find product market fit. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you...
2025-12-1948 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesBazel Keith and the Quest for Better BuildsIn this episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with Keith Smiley, aka “Bazel Keith,” to talk all things Bazel and iOS tooling. Keith shares how hacking on Objective-C in high school, contributing to CocoaPods in college, and joining Lyft as an early mobile engineer all stacked up to push him toward dev experience and infrastructure. Along the way, you’ll hear war stories about compiler bugs, massive Swift codebases, and what it actually took to get Bazel’s Apple rules into production shape at Lyft.Keith and Matt also discuss his current work at Modular...
2025-12-1552 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesIn Praise of Bugs: P-Y Ricau on the Joy of Breaking ThingsIn this episode of Beyond the Noise, host Matt Klein talks with P-Y Ricau, Principal Engineer at Block (formerly Square) and a legend in the Android community, about his journey from open-source tinkerer to one of mobile’s most respected engineers. P-Y shares how a GitHub issue led him to Square, reflects on the company’s early open-source culture, and unpacks the real challenges of mobile development, from race conditions and memory leaks to performance tuning and observability gaps. He and Matt explore the rise of AI-assisted coding, its impact on debugging, and why P-Y believes loving bugs, and lear...
2025-12-0253 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesFrom Droid Days to DraftKings: Hemant Garg on Velocity with GuardrailsFrom shipping the first Droid phone to running multi-app, multi-state platforms, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings, unpacks how to ship monthly with higher quality, define “success” beyond crash rate, and what it takes to move fast in a highly regulated industry.
2025-11-1053 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesFrom Razr to Smart Carts: Building the Future of Payments & Retail TechFrom Google’s face ID payments to Instacart’s Caper carts, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Michal Palczewski, shares the war stories, logs, and growth levers that turn prototypes into products.
2025-10-2153 minBeyond the Noise: Signals, Stories, and Spicy TakesFrom Hacking Modems to Rewriting Lyft: Martin’s Journey to bitdriftIn the first episode of Beyond the Noise, Matt Klein sits down with bitdrift co-founder Martin to trace his path from hacking assembly code as a teen to pioneering Swift at Lyft — and why he believes crash reporting is dead and mobile observability needs a reset.
2025-10-1843 min
The MonkCastMatt Klein on why Mobile Observability Lags Behind Server ObservabilityIn this RedMonk conversation, Matt Klein, Co-founder and CTO of bitdrift, chats with Kate Holterhoff, senior analyst at RedMonk, about mobile observability's challenges. They discuss how hard mobile observability is compared to server-side observability, the impact of privacy controls on data collection, and the cultural divide within organizations between mobile and backend engineers. Matt shares his perspective on OpenTelemetry, emphasizing that while it helps establish a baseline for telemetry, it's "not going to solve your observability woes," particularly as they relate to broader issues of data overload and vendor lock-in.
Show notes: https://redmonk.com/blog/2025/06/09/rmc-matt-klein-mobile-observability/
2025-06-0939 min
Software Defined TalkPut On A MusicalThis week, we discuss the shifting world of observability, the nightmare of “Configuration Hell,” and OpenAI’s latest valuation. Plus, a surprise Broadway musical review!
Runner-up Titles
We say we’re friends, but I don’t really know them
Observability 2025
I don’t have any sympathy for anyone
If you want to win observability, put on a musical
Just is THE trigger word
It’s a well-known Hell
The blog posts are making me angry
Rundown
CISO MUSICAL | Official Broadway Trailer
Monitoring is back
Observability 3.0 - bitdrift Blog
Another observability 3.0 appears on the horizon
ControlTheory...
2025-04-0447 min
Fragmented - AI Developer Podcast253 - logcat - a new look at logging with Piwai from SquareKaushik looks at a new logging library from Square called logcat. He starts by seeing how the popular Timber library does it along with the benefits. He then interviews Pierre-Yves Ricau (Piwai) of Square, the creator of logcat, to explore its origins and advantages.You can find the full shownotes over at fragmentedpodcast.com.Show NotesTimberlogcatMotivations in READMECompiler plugin issuePlayground android app demonstrating logcatbitdrift.ioDesign of everyday thingsPrevious episode #191 on loggingContact Piwai:WebsiteBlueskyContactYou can find us on a few places:fragmentedpodcast.comContact usYoutubeKaushik:kau...
2024-12-1040 min
Software MisadventuresImpact Driven Development | Matt Klein (Envoy, bitdrift)From creating Envoy to co-founding bitdrift to reimagine mobile observability, Matt joins the show to chat about being told to simply “write some proxy in Python” in the early days of building Envoy, early influences from building “shrink wrap” software at Microsoft, the process of spinning bitdrift out of Lyft, and much more. Segments: (00:03:10) Being a plumber on LinkedIn (00:05:00) Early influences from building “shrink wrap” software at Microsoft (00:10:44) Getting diverse work experiences (00:16:36) Setting high standards for the team (00:20:42) Lessons from failure of the first startup (00:22:02) Building a s...
2024-06-181h 19
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleCreating Envoy, with Matt KleinMatt Klein is the CTO of bitdrift which is building a Mobile observability platform. Matt is known for being the creator of Envoy, one of the most popular open source proxies in the cloud space. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod News of the week Cloud Native Rejekts CNCF 2024 Prospectus KubeCon Paris Guide Abdel co-authored KubeCon Paris Recommendations Map Links from t...
2024-03-1955 min
DevZen PodcastНостальгический выпуск — Episode 456
В этом выпуске: очередная порция потрясающих тем… и ретро-игори.
[00:01:27] Чему мы научились за неделю
Ryujinx — Nintendo Switch Emulator
OUTDOORS55 — YouTube
[00:12:45] Keychron K15 Pro
[00:27:57] The bitdrift ring buffer: time travel, science fiction no more
bitdrift
FIRE — Episode 0368 « DevZen Podcast
[00:49:39] #темы456
[01:02:28] [GameZen] Ретроигори
Ноутбук 2000-х годов LG LM50
Retro PC Time Capsule vs PS2
Лог чата в Telegram.
КДПВ: со Стима
Голоса выпуска: Валера, Ваня, Саша.
Фоновая музыка: Plastic3 — Corporate Rock Motivation Loop 4
2024-02-131h 53