App Performance Café

Apr 26 2022

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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

Apr 26 2022 27 mins

Welcome 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 p

Café with Thomas Harman from Pinterest, on how to convert performance into business KPIs

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Café with Michael Rebello from Lyft on abstracting networking from application layer

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