
App Performance Café
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/
Episodes
16 episodes
Café with Matthew MacLennan from Bongo, on how to overcome network overload
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 Banglade...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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27:25

Café with Thomas Harman from Pinterest, on how to convert performance into business KPIs
Welcome 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 a...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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44:20

Café with Victor Garcia from YBVR on how to ensure consistent UX in the bandwidth-hungry AR/VR world
This 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, i...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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39:23

Café with Michael Rebello from Lyft on abstracting networking from application layer
Hi, 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 opti...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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36:51

Café with Antonio Pellegrino from Mutable on how to leverage underutilized server operators, and the dependency of hyperscaler cloud providers
Hi, 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 disrupti...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:26

Café 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 Di...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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30:13

Café 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, par...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:51

Café with Senthil Padmanabhan from Ebay, on the importance of speed consistency
This 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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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36:18

Café with Mark Finkle from Tumblr, on real-user monitoring, optimal performance standards, and lite versions
This 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...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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47:44

Café with Yang from Facebook, on HTTP3 and QUIC
It 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 tak...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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38:35

Café with Hendro from Bukalapak, on super apps and their performance
Our 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. He...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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33:41

Café with Manuel from Farfetch, on performance budgets and metrics
Today 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...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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42:33

Café with Sailesh from Western Digital, on why every component matters for performance
This 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 f...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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35:05

Café with Prasanna from LinkedIn, on personalized app performance
This 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 conce...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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28:02

Café with Nolan from Twitter, on the psychology around performance
Today 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 u...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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41:47

Prologue with our host, Rui Costa
The 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 Li...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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