The evolution towards more uniform support among modern browsers significantly alleviates the burden on developers, reducing the need for extensive firefighting related to browser compatibility. The maturation of browser APIs, such as the performance timing API and the upcoming long animation framing API, enhances the capability to observe and optimize web applications effectively, leading to a smoother development experience and improved application performance.
One of the fastest areas of growth in observability is frontend observability, or real user monitoring. This is the practice of monitoring and analyzing the performance, behavior, and user experience of web applications from the user’s perspective.
Purvi Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer at Honeycomb. She joins the podcast to talk about the evolution and status of real user monitoring.
This episode is hosted by Lee Atchison. Lee Atchison is a software architect, author, and thought leader on cloud computing and application modernization. His best-selling book, Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media), is an essential resource for technical teams looking to maintain high availability and manage risk in their cloud environments.
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