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App Performance CaféCafé with Matthew MacLennan from Bongo, on how to overcome network overloadWelcome 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 4G connections to get the content, the picture gets even more challenging. Matt will guide us through these c...
2022-04-2627 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Thomas Harman from Pinterest, on how to convert performance into business KPIsWelcome 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 pre-release, and, more challenging, what cannot. This also correlates a lot with how should w...
2022-04-2644 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Victor Garcia from YBVR on how to ensure consistent UX in the bandwidth-hungry AR/VR worldThis 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 shares why he believes 5G is not the free ticket for bandwith utilization that we keep hearing about everywhere. In...
2022-04-1939 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Michael Rebello from Lyft on abstracting networking from application layerHi, 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 concepts of abstracting networking from the application layer a...
2022-04-1936 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Antonio Pellegrino from Mutable on how to leverage underutilized server operators, and the dependency of hyperscaler cloud providersHi, 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 existing infrastructure like underutilized server operators, and increase the range of cloud infrastructure we have access t...
2022-04-0631 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Petr Zapletal from Disney Streaming, on how to meet user experience expectations , and synthetic data testing Hi, 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 picks.Petr will be sharing his experience around those topics as well as the relevance of using s...
2022-03-3030 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Emil Novakov from Scaleflex, on image and video optimizations and their impact on business KPIs Hi, 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 regarding the impact of such optimizations and KPIs like user conversion, retention, a...
2022-03-2325 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Senthil Padmanabhan from Ebay, on the importance of speed consistencyThis 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 app performance, and then takes us through a journey of tons of minor optimizations that, when p...
2022-03-1636 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Mark Finkle from Tumblr, on real-user monitoring, optimal performance standards, and lite versionsThis 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 idea on how to use the efforts to build a lite version to improve the or...
2020-07-0947 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Yang from Facebook, on HTTP3 and QUICIt 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 Performance Café: http://performancecafe.codavel.com/ Codavel: https://www.codavel.com/
2020-07-0238 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Hendro from Bukalapak, on super apps and their performanceOur 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/ Hendro’s on Medium: https://medium.com/@hendro.riyadi App Performance Café: http://performan...
2020-06-2533 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Manuel from Farfetch, on performance budgets and metricsToday 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/manuel-garcia-12b6928/ Manuel’s articles on performance: https://www.farfetchtechblog.com/en/blog/authors/manue...
2020-06-1842 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Sailesh from Western Digital, on why every component matters for performanceThis 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 it! Sailesh’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saileshr/ App Performance Café: http://performancecafe.codavel.com/
2020-06-1135 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Prasanna from LinkedIn, on personalized app performanceThis 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://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2019/06/understanding-network-quality--the-rise-of-customized-content-de App Performance Café: http://performancecafe.codavel.com/Codavel: https://www.codavel.com/
2020-06-0428 minApp Performance CaféCafé with Nolan from Twitter, on the psychology around performanceToday 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/NolanOBrienApp Performance Café: http://performancecafe.codavel.com/Codavel: https://www.codavel.com/
2020-05-2541 minApp Performance CaféPrologue with our host, Rui CostaThe 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/
2020-05-2501 min
O Podcast das StartupsO Podcast das Startups #09 - Landing.Jobs anuncia a Série A de investimentoEsta semana:
- falamos-te da ronda de investimento da Landing.Jobs - https://www.dinheirovivo.pt/fazedores/landing-jobs-com-investimento-de-dois-milhoes-em-serie-a/;
- e da ronda de investimento da Codavel - https://www.dinheirovivo.pt/fazedores/tecnologia-portuguesa-para-apps-mais-rapidas-recebe-investimento-de-13-milhoes/;
- apresentamos-te as 10 startups que vão participar na segunda edição do Techstars Lisbon - https://www.dinheirovivo.pt/fazedores/techstars-acelera-10-startups-no-segundo-programa-em-portugal/;
- contamos-te a parceria entre a HiJiffy e o grupo Pestana;
- promovemos a campanha de crowdfunding de OFundamentO - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theknittingproject/the-knitting-project-turning-pixels-into-loops?ref=3y5y1p&token=967bbc60;
- e a campanha do Fumaça - https://fumaca.pt/cr...
2020-03-0606 min