Implementing Datadog in iOS: A SwiftUI vs UIKit Perspective

This post discusses implementing Datadog in iOS applications using both SwiftUI and UIKit. It highlights the necessary SDK packages, key management challenges, and best practices for monitoring. The author prefers SwiftUI for its maintainability and automatic lifecycle handling, while noting UIKit’s explicit control and customization options. Pricing complexities are also addressed. Continue reading →

Reading Up on Observability and Monitoring

In the next few weeks I’ll be doing some work for Honeycomb.io. In preparation I’ve been ramping up on a number of topics, namely the big one is the specific differences in things like observability and monitoring. The aside that makes this relatively easy, is I live and breath this space from a site reliability,... Continue reading →