Peter Morelli
@pmorelli.bsky.social
Co-founder and CEO @bitdrift.io I like to build things, fast.
📍 San Francisco
📍 San Francisco
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Is OpenTelemetry the foundation for mobile observability? Not really. 🔍
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
What is OpenTelemetry, and what is it not? - bitdrift Blog
OpenTelemetry is an open-source framework and software including SDKs, tracing instrumentation, and a universal collector for generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry from applications and…
blog.bitdrift.io
February 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Is OpenTelemetry the foundation for mobile observability? Not really. 🔍
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
OTel standardizes telemetry, but mobile has unique constraints. bitdrift stores telemetry on-device, retrieves only what matters, correlates with backend traces when investigation requires it. ⚡
blog.bitdrift.io/post/what-is...
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🚩 New in bitdrift Capture: feature flag support!
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
Announcing feature flag support - bitdrift Blog
Introducing feature flag support in bitdrift Capture. Correlate feature flags to issues, filter by variant, and build workflows that react to feature flag exposures.
blog.bitdrift.io
January 29, 2026 at 5:03 PM
🚩 New in bitdrift Capture: feature flag support!
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
See which flags and variants were exposed when crashes occurred. Filter issues by experiment. Build workflows that match on specific feature flag states.
Full details: blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
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🎙️ New Beyond the Noise episode alert!
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - Why Mobile Releases Still Feel Like Chaos, with Runway CEO Gabriel Savit
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…
bitdrift.io
January 26, 2026 at 4:22 PM
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise episode alert!
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Hear Gabriel Savit, Co-founder & CEO of Runway, on why mobile releases stay painfully manual, why checklists don’t fix release chaos, and a surprising “automation paradox".
Listen here (or wherever you get your podcasts!) bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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How is the world's largest storage system, AWS S3 built? Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up S3 for 13 years (!) S3's scale is something else (tens of millions of hard drives, eleven 9s of durability (!!) and heavy usage of formal methods, amongst others.)
(cont'd)
(cont'd)
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
How is the world's largest storage system, AWS S3 built? Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been heading up S3 for 13 years (!) S3's scale is something else (tens of millions of hard drives, eleven 9s of durability (!!) and heavy usage of formal methods, amongst others.)
(cont'd)
(cont'd)
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the seahawks look rested, moisturized and hydrated.
the 49ers look:
the 49ers look:
a man with a bandage on his face is talking on a telephone
Alt: a man with a bandage on his face is talking on a telephone
media.tenor.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
the seahawks look rested, moisturized and hydrated.
the 49ers look:
the 49ers look:
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Every Brock Purdy dropback looks like a scene from 28 Years Later
January 18, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Every Brock Purdy dropback looks like a scene from 28 Years Later
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A traditional mobile crash tool shows you how your app crashed.
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
Announcing crash reporting the way it should be: free & full of context - bitdrift Blog
Rosalind Lutsky
blog.bitdrift.io
January 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
A traditional mobile crash tool shows you how your app crashed.
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
bitdrift: shows you why it crashed.
Mobile crash reporting is free on bitdrift. Full context included: everything you need to track and debug crashes. Try it today! #MobileCrashReporting
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🎙️New episode alert! Hear @tysmith.me, Principal Engineer at Uber, talk his career path, the coming validation/observability crunch, and the rise of AI-driven development.
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - Scaling Mobile at Uber: Ty Smith on Community, Toolchains, and the Next Dev Productivity Wave
Matt Klein sits down with Ty Smith, Principal Engineer at Uber and longtime Android community pillar, to trace a career from tinkering on a Pentium at age six to building at Uber scale. They discuss m...
bitdrift.io
January 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
🎙️New episode alert! Hear @tysmith.me, Principal Engineer at Uber, talk his career path, the coming validation/observability crunch, and the rise of AI-driven development.
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Check it out here, or wherever you get your podcasts👇
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Man, this poor packers kicker.
January 11, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Man, this poor packers kicker.
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Historian Joe Adelman steps behind the mic this week!
His guest? Michelle Craig McDonald, author of Coffee Nation.
They cover smuggling, silver coffee pots, enslaved labor, and why Americans fell hard for coffee.
🎙️ www.benfranklinsworld.com/429
#HistoryPod #CoffeeNerds #FoodHistory #Coffee
His guest? Michelle Craig McDonald, author of Coffee Nation.
They cover smuggling, silver coffee pots, enslaved labor, and why Americans fell hard for coffee.
🎙️ www.benfranklinsworld.com/429
#HistoryPod #CoffeeNerds #FoodHistory #Coffee
Episode 429: Michelle McDonald, Coffee in Early America: Why Americans Really Drink Coffee
Have you ever wondered why so many Americans drink coffee in the morning? Join us for an exploration of coffee in early America.
www.benfranklinsworld.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Historian Joe Adelman steps behind the mic this week!
His guest? Michelle Craig McDonald, author of Coffee Nation.
They cover smuggling, silver coffee pots, enslaved labor, and why Americans fell hard for coffee.
🎙️ www.benfranklinsworld.com/429
#HistoryPod #CoffeeNerds #FoodHistory #Coffee
His guest? Michelle Craig McDonald, author of Coffee Nation.
They cover smuggling, silver coffee pots, enslaved labor, and why Americans fell hard for coffee.
🎙️ www.benfranklinsworld.com/429
#HistoryPod #CoffeeNerds #FoodHistory #Coffee
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🎙️ New Beyond the Noise ep! @smileykeith.bsky.social (“Bazel Keith"), talks Bazel, iOS tooling, and his journey from CocoaPods ➡️ Lyft ➡️ Modular.
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - Bazel Keith and the Quest for Better Builds
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 j...
bitdrift.io
December 15, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🎙️ New Beyond the Noise ep! @smileykeith.bsky.social (“Bazel Keith"), talks Bazel, iOS tooling, and his journey from CocoaPods ➡️ Lyft ➡️ Modular.
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Catch war stories of compiler bugs, dealing w/large Swift codebases, plus, why Apple/Google don’t solve many DX problems 👀
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
Ah yes. SantaCon. 😑
December 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Ah yes. SantaCon. 😑
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bitdrift now supports issue triaging:
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
Announcing issue triaging - bitdrift Blog
blog.bitdrift.io
December 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
bitdrift now supports issue triaging:
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
- Assign issues directly
- Set a status for any issue
-Track which app version includes a fix
Read more about how to go from detection ➝ fix, all without leaving bitdrift.
#bitdrift #mobileobservability
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
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Yay new @bitdrift.io Beyond the Noise episode with @p-y.wtf. You will not want to miss this one!
🎙️ The newest episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped! Listen to @mattklein123.dev and @p-y.wtf chat about his journey from open source to Block, and why AI introducing so many new bugs may actually be a good thing for curious engineers 🪲
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - In Praise of Bugs: P-Y Ricau on the Joy of Breaking Things
P-Y Ricau, Principal Engineer at Block and Android legend, joins Matt Klein to discuss 16 years of mobile engineering: from building LeakCanary and early Android tooling to why crash rates miss real u...
bitdrift.io
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yay new @bitdrift.io Beyond the Noise episode with @p-y.wtf. You will not want to miss this one!
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🎙️ The newest episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped! Listen to @mattklein123.dev and @p-y.wtf chat about his journey from open source to Block, and why AI introducing so many new bugs may actually be a good thing for curious engineers 🪲
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
beyond the noise - In Praise of Bugs: P-Y Ricau on the Joy of Breaking Things
P-Y Ricau, Principal Engineer at Block and Android legend, joins Matt Klein to discuss 16 years of mobile engineering: from building LeakCanary and early Android tooling to why crash rates miss real u...
bitdrift.io
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
🎙️ The newest episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped! Listen to @mattklein123.dev and @p-y.wtf chat about his journey from open source to Block, and why AI introducing so many new bugs may actually be a good thing for curious engineers 🪲
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...
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We started with a simple idea: "Let’s prototype how bitdrift would work on godot". Normal teams would write a PRD. Maybe write a spec.
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
Introducing godot support (a.k.a. how we accidentally built an arcade machine) - bitdrift Blog
blog.bitdrift.io
November 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We started with a simple idea: "Let’s prototype how bitdrift would work on godot". Normal teams would write a PRD. Maybe write a spec.
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
We are not normal. We built a fully functional arcade cabinet.
Here's the story: blog.bitdrift.io/post/introdu...
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🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped!
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
From Droid Days to DraftKings: Hemant Garg on Velocity with Guardrails
open.spotify.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🎙️ New episode of Beyond the Noise just dropped!
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
In this episode, Hemant Garg, VP of Engineering at DraftKings discusses working on the first Droid phone, his time at Evernote, JPMC, and now DraftKings, and more!
Listen wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/5QAb...
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We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
Telemetry on Tap: Mobile Engineering Happy Hour | hosted by bitdrift · Luma
You're invited to join the bitdrift team for an evening of food, drinks, and good conversation with other mobile devs! This event is invite-only. RSVP to…
luma.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
Telemetry on Tap: Mobile Engineering Happy Hour | hosted by bitdrift · Luma
You're invited to join the bitdrift team for an evening of food, drinks, and good conversation with other mobile devs! This event is invite-only. RSVP to…
luma.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
We’re hosting a mobile engineering happy hour in San Francisco next Tuesday, on the 11th. We'll be at Bar Darling, one of my favorite SF bars.
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
We’d love for any folks local to SF to come join us for some food and drinks, talk mobile, and network a bit!
Register here: luma.com/5mepetxx?tk=...
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Lots of lovely folks want to cook for neighbors, fill community fridges during SNAP shutdown but are intimidated. A mutual aid group in Flatbush, Brooklyn has been feeding 80+ people every single week for a year and a half or so now. Nobody is born knowing how to cook for 80, so here's our guide!
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Hi everyone! Today we are thrilled to launch or revamped free tier for @bitdrift.io. For too long crash reporting has been synonymous with mobile observability, which is unfortunate because 99.9% of sessions are crash free.
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
Announcing crash reporting the way it should be: free & full of context - bitdrift Blog
blog.bitdrift.io
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hi everyone! Today we are thrilled to launch or revamped free tier for @bitdrift.io. For too long crash reporting has been synonymous with mobile observability, which is unfortunate because 99.9% of sessions are crash free.
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...
blog.bitdrift.io/post/announc...