S13 Bonus: Dynamic Observability: Eliminating Telemetry Waste at Scale with Peter Morelli, Co-Founder & CEO of Bitdrift
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Most observability tools are built with the same pattern in that you have an agent or an SDK or a sidecar that collects data and then it pushes it into a big database somewhere, whether it's time series database or store, whatever it is. That works really well in data centers where you have a lot of bandwidth, that your network is reliable, you have a lot of CPU and storage you're running all the time. None of that's actually true for mobile. And so what we found was if you had a good network connection for a little bit and you caught some telemetry and tried to push it up to a big database in the cloud, it worked. But that really isn't the normal case. A lot of time your network isn't good or you walk from inside to outside or into a tunnel and then suddenly your network connection drops.
We were seeing that the data was being dropped on the ground. My name is Pete Morelli, co-founder and CEO of Big Drift.
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He's lived all over, like New York, San Diego, Texas, London, but always ends up returning to the Bay Area.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:52
2
What is the background of Peter Morelli and why did he leave Lyft?
4:52–8:38
3
Why do traditional observability tools waste bandwidth and storage on mobile devices?
8:38–14:10
4
How did the team’s first MVP capture telemetry on‑device and delay upload?
14:10–18:13
5
What technical choices (Rust, Swift/Kotlin, edge processing) enable low‑latency mobile observability?
18:13–22:59
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How does Bitdrift make telemetry data configurable at runtime instead of compile time?
22:59–26:59
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What strategies did Bitdrift use to scale from millions to billions of device connections?
26:59–31:06
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How did Peter build and hire a remote, senior‑engineer‑focused team for Bitdrift?
31:06–36:14
Speakers
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