App Performance Café
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -A relaxed coffee always brings an insightful conversation. And when it comes to mobile app performance, coffee is always a useful tool. Join us at the App Performance Café, where Rui Costa, CEO at Codavel, brings the most knowledgable individuals for an informal conversation around the vast world of mobile app performance. Our guests will share the challenges and obstacles, strategies, and lessons learned when building top-performing mobile apps. Across multiple episodes, we'll cover the connection of mobile app performance with topics like networking, infrastructure, monitoring, UX, business metrics, app development, security, and performance culture, to name a few. - Visit http://performancecafe.codavel.com for more information. - Powered by Codavel: https://www.codavel.com/
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Café with Matthew MacLennan from Bongo, on how to overcome network overload
April 26, 2022 18:00 - 27 minutes - 16.6 MBWelcome to the App Performance Café, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. This week we had the pleasure to have as a guest Matthew MacLennan. Matt is the Director of Product Management at Bongo, the leading OTT video service in Bangladesh. Bangladesh's complex networking ecosystem presents quite a few challenges when it comes to delivering a good user experience, in particular for video streaming applications. And when you consider that the vast majority of the users resort to 3G or ...
Café with Thomas Harman from Pinterest, on how to convert performance into business KPIs
April 26, 2022 17:00 - 44 minutes - 24.2 MBWelcome to the App Performance Café, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. This week we had the pleasure to have as a guest Thomas Harman, Engineering Manager at Pinterest. Tom is responsible for ensuring that Pinterest performs always at the top of the industry. Tom shares with us why and how one must ensure that everyone in the company is on the same page regarding performance. Tom also shares advice on how can we detect changes in performance, in particular, what can be detected pr...
Café with Victor Garcia from YBVR on how to ensure consistent UX in the bandwidth-hungry AR/VR world
April 19, 2022 15:00 - 39 minutes - 24.1 MBThis week we welcomed Victor Garcia, co-founder of YBVR, a provider of solutions for immersive experiences in particular for sports events. Immersive video delivery is very challenging, so a lot of bandwidth is required to reach the end-user, in particular over wireless links since the delay threshold users are willing to tolerate is very low. Victor will guide us through how these demands translate into big technical challenges and share valuable insights on how to tackle them. Victor also ...
Café with Michael Rebello from Lyft on abstracting networking from application layer
April 19, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 22.1 MBHi, I'm Rui and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today I have the pleasure of having as a guest Michael Rebello from Lyft. Michael is a Staff Engineer, and we share a big passion for network optimization, so, as you can imagine, it took some effort to keep this episode not too long. Michael will guide us through the network optimization he has been working on at Lyft. We touch on a few approaches, but as highlights, I would pick the core conc...
Café with Michael Rebello from Lyft on abstracting networking from application layer
April 19, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 22.1 MBHi, I'm Rui and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today I have the pleasure of having as a guest Michael Rebello from Lyft. Michael is a Staff Engineer, and we share a big passion for network optimization, so, as you can imagine, it took some effort to keep this episode not too long. Michael will guide us through the network optimization he has been working on at Lyft. We touch on a few approaches, but as highlights, I would pick the core conc...
Café with Antonio Pellegrino from Mutable on how to leverage underutilized server operators, and the dependency of hyperscaler cloud providers
April 06, 2022 17:00 - 31 minutes - 17.3 MBHi, I'm Rui, and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today I have the pleasure of having as a guest my friend Antonio Pellegrino, CEO and Co-Founder at Mutable. Pelle will share with us his disruptive vision on the cloud infrastructure ecosystem, the reason why are we still so dependent on hyperscaler providers of cloud infrastructure, and why is that not enough. In particular, and related to Mutable's mission, Pelle shares how can we use existi...
Café with Antonio Pellegrino from Mutable on how to leverage underutilized server operators, and the dependency of hyperscaler cloud providers
April 06, 2022 17:00 - 31 minutes - 17.3 MBHi, I'm Rui, and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today I have the pleasure of having as a guest my friend Antonio Pellegrino, CEO and Co-Founder at Mutable. Pelle will share with us his disruptive vision on the cloud infrastructure ecosystem, the reason why are we still so dependent on hyperscaler providers of cloud infrastructure, and why is that not enough. In particular, and related to Mutable's mission, Pelle shares how can we use existi...
Café with Petr Zapletal from Disney Streaming, on how to meet user experience expectations , and synthetic data testing
March 30, 2022 17:00 - 30 minutes - 17.5 MBHi, I'm Rui, and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today's guest is Petr Zapletal from Disney Streaming Services. Petr is a Senior Engineer at Disney, and his main focus is to ensure that Disney is capable of meeting the very high expectations of hundreds of millions of users. As you can imagine, this is very challenging because Disney streaming applications are very traffic-intensive, and they need to efficiently cope with very large traffic ...
Café with Emil Novakov from Scaleflex, on image and video optimizations and their impact on business KPIs
March 23, 2022 18:00 - 25 minutes - 15.3 MBHi, I'm Rui, and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today's guest is Emil Novakov, CEO and Co-founder at Scaleflex. Emil will be sharing with us today his experience with app performance, particularly on the topics of optimizing image and video sizes in such a way that you can ensure your mobile app loads this type of content way much faster, leading to a better user experience. Emil will also share with us what he has seen in the market regard...
Café with Emil Novakov from Scaleflex, on image and video optimizations and its impact on business KPIs
March 23, 2022 18:00 - 25 minutes - 15.3 MBHi, I'm Rui, and welcome to the App Performance Cafe, a podcast focused on mobile app performance. Today's guest is Emil Novakov, CEO and Co-founder at Scaleflex. Emil will be sharing with us today his experience with app performance, particularly on the topics of optimizing image and video sizes in such a way that you can ensure your mobile app loads this type of content way much faster, leading to a better user experience. Emil will also share with us what he has seen in the market regard...
Café with Senthil Padmanabhan from Ebay, on the importance of speed consistency
March 16, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes - 21.1 MBThis week we had the pleasure of having Senthil Padmanabhan, VP and Technical Fellow at eBay, where he leads the user experience and developer activity engineering. In this episode, Senthil shares with us why he started "Speed" and its goal of significantly improving the performance of eBay's, both mobile web and native applications. Senthil will also share some lessons about the work they are doing at eBay, what metrics should we consider as more important when the goal is to improve our a...
Café with Mark Finkle from Tumblr, on real-user monitoring, optimal performance standards, and lite versions
July 09, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBThis week we had the pleasure of having Mark Finkle from Tumblr with us, sharing his holistic view on performance approach, and the relevance of framing it from a UX standpoint. That’s why real-user monitoring (RUM) is fundamental to understand what users are experiencing. Mark then takes us to some performance challenges he has seen at Tumblr and shares a few techniques they are using, for example playing with image and GIF formats for optimal performance. Finally, Mark shares a superb ide...
Café with Yang from Facebook, on HTTP3 and QUIC
July 01, 2020 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIt was a true pleasure to have Yang Chi from Facebook with us, sharing his thoughts on the relationship between performance and user engagement, and why it is crucial to have visibility over the performance users are getting. Yang will then take us deeper into HTTP3 and QUIC, its potential benefits and tradeoffs. Yang also shares some interesting results observed during the world’s lockdown due to Covid-19 pandemics. Hope you enjoy it! Yang’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/chi_yang App Pe...
Café with Hendro from Bukalapak, on super apps and their performance
June 25, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBOur guest for today is Hendro Riyadi from Bukalapak, sharing his view on the biggest challenges faced when “super apps” came into play. Network conditions, user expectations, and concerns are different in Indonesia when compared to the West. Hendro shares the lessons learned when building and managing complex applications in such a challenging setup. Stay with us to hear all of Hendro’s insights and pieces of advice, hope you enjoy it! Hendro’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hriyadi/...
Café with Manuel from Farfetch, on performance budgets and metrics
June 18, 2020 00:00 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBToday we have the pleasure of receiving Manuel Garcia from Farfetch, sharing his view on performance metrics and the complex choices behind them. Manuel then introduces us to the concept of performance budgets, a key tool to prevent performance regressions, concluding with why performance should be seen as a feature and why it must be a shared responsibility across the entire company. Stay tuned to hear the full conversation, hope you enjoy it! Manuel’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in...
Café with Sailesh from Western Digital, on why every component matters for performance
June 11, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBThis week we have the pleasure of having as our guest Sailesh Rachabathuni from Western Digital, sharing with us his holistic view on performance and why every component is relevant, from backend optimization to screen rendering. We will then focus on the instability of wireless networks and on why you should not program assuming optimal network conditions, to conclude on some ideas on how to handle unavoidable performance tradeoffs. Stay tuned to hear the full conversation, hope you enjoy i...
Café with Prasanna from LinkedIn, on personalized app performance
June 04, 2020 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBThis week we have the pleasure of having as our guest Prasanna Vijayanathan from Linkedin, sharing his view on what he sees application performance for each individual user across the world. Prasanna will then take us into the interesting concepts of personalized performance and network quality as a service, to ensure that every user gets the best experience possible. Prasanna’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pvijayanathan/ Prassana’s article on customized content delivery: https...
Café with Nolan from Twitter, on the psychology around performance
May 25, 2020 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBToday we’re lucky to have Nolan O’Brien from Twitter with us, sharing his view on mobile app performance. Starting with why should we care about performance and the psychology behind user perception, the conversation goes from managing global user bases with such diversity of expectations, to measuring and ensuring ways to handle user frustration. Nolan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/NolanOBrien App Performance Café: http://performancecafe.codavel.com/ Codavel: https://www.codavel.com/
Prologue with our host, Rui Costa
May 25, 2020 20:00 - 1 minute - 1.21 MBThe host of App Performance Café, Rui Costa, explains the motivation to start a podcast on mobile app performance. Also, Rui gives an overview of how he envisions the podcast and what topics will be discussed in future episodes. Rui's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruifcosta/ App Performance Café: http://performancecafe.codavel.com/ Codavel: https://www.codavel.com/