Field notes

Field notes from the studio.

Engineering deep-dives, triage guides and live-ops war stories from the team building Pulseframe.

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FEATUREDDeep dive · 18 min read

Everything Pulseframe does

A full tour of the platform: what the SDK captures, how a crash becomes a grouped issue, how a dead server names the players who were on it, and what the analytics, alerting, MCP and billing layers actually do.

TSPulseframe Team
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Guide · 7 min

Reading a pulseframe: the anatomy of a crash report

Stack trace, breadcrumbs, device state, session — what each part of the autopsy tells you, and the order to read them in when you are triaging under pressure.

TSPulseframe Team
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Analytics · 6 min

Funnels that don't lie: instrumenting onboarding

Most onboarding funnels measure the wrong thing. How to fire events that map to player intent, and why a stability problem so often shows up as a conversion problem.

TSPulseframe Team
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Live-ops · 7 min

Surviving launch day: a live-ops runbook

Concurrency is climbing, a region is filling up, and a crash alert just fired. What to watch, in what order, and when to stop debugging and roll back.

TSPulseframe Team
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Engineering · 8 min

One issue, three symbol formats: crashes across PC, console and mobile

The same bug on PC and console should be one issue, not two — even though the debug information lives in completely different formats. How we group first and resolve names second, and what is still in progress.

TSPulseframe Team