Silent, Swift, & Sharp: Garuda – Our Mobile Analytics Engine
summary
Garuda is a native-only SDK that centralizes mobile analytics so the JS thread only calls track event while native handles event construction, DB-backed session-managed batching, configurable trigger limits and batch sizes, retry with acknowledgement, and an app-state flusher. It replaces multiple providers (Firebase, Mixpanel, etc.), routes events to an internal data platform, prevents data loss — zero events lost during a ~30–60 minute outage — and currently handles millions of events/year.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 0:44Why we built Garuda
- 1:47Problems with existing analytics tools
- 3:13Garuda architecture overview
- 6:07Why build it natively
- 7:31Impact on business and teams
- 9:20Future plans for Garuda
- 9:45Closing and team acknowledgment
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