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Get Better Visibility Into App Hangs On Apple Devices

App hangs are the worst kind of bug: they don’t crash, they don’t log, and unless you're actively profiling, good luck catching them in the debugger. Maybe the main thread is blocked because it’s decoding a massive image with UIImage(data:). Maybe a background task is holding a lock or waiting on a DispatchGroup that never finishes. Maybe an async flow is stuck waiting on a continuation that never resumes.

Observability 2.0 in the Real World: Lessons from SimpliSafe's Engineering Journey

In this candid and insightful talk from Observability Sessions Boston, Laban Eilers, a platform engineer at SimpliSafe, takes us on a practical deep dive into the evolution of observability—from the traditional “three pillars” model to the emerging promise of Observability 2.0.

How to implement business observability

It sounds simple: You define metrics for success, you track them, and if they fail, you fix them. For decades, this was how businesses monitored their systems. However, a reactive monitoring approach, which alerts businesses about failures only after the issue has already impacted operations, became insufficient as digital architectures grew more complex.