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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Frontend Monitoring with Matt Arbesfeld
Description: Web development has historically had more work being done on the server than on the client. The observability tooling has reflected this emphasis on the backend. Monitoring tools for log management and backend metrics have existed for decades, helping developers debug their server infrastructure.Today, web frontends have more work to do. Detailed components in frameworks such as React and Angular might respond quickly without waiting for a network request, with their mutations being processed entirely in the browser. This results in better user experiences, but more work is being done on the client side, away from...