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 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 challenges and how Bongo is tackling them, in particular how one can handle low-end android devices that do not support the latest video codecs. One thing that surprised us is the fact that Bongo resorts to P2P technology to manage the large volume of traffic that stems from main lifestreaming events. And this P2P offloading technique seems to become a trend these days. We had a very insightful conversation with Matt and we hope you do enjoy this episode. Don’t forget to follow us on the usual podcast platforms to get the latest on app performance from industry experts. Visit https://www.codavel.com/podcast where you can find more details about the topics each guest brings to the show.

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 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 we measure and analyze performance. A long one, we know, but we hope you do enjoy the episode. Visit https://www.codavel.com/podcast where you can find more details about the topics each guest brings to the show.

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, 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 the process, Victor also delves into how hard it is to ensure a consistent experience over the always unpredictable wireless links, and he even talks about Codavel - but that’s totally his fault, not ours (sorry for that). Jump into https://www.codavel.com/podcast to learn more about app performance and get more details about the topics each guest brings to the show.