Name: Transmissions From the Tweet Factory: How Observability Transformed Mobile Performance at Twitter - Hanson Ho, Embrace
Start: 2025-04-01T14:40:00+0100
End: 2025-04-01T15:05:00+0100

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Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Twitter realized a decade ago that the biggest performance issues impeding usage occurred outside its data centers. But observability, taken for granted by backend devs and SREs, didn’t exist meaningfully on Android and iOS. Issues that don’t show up in profilers or end in crashes were practically invisible.

Stone by stone, the team built tooling that performantly and judiciously extracted telemetry on the client side. Using this newly discovered treasure trove of failure points and bottlenecks, performance was greatly improved – and in a verifiable way that shows how it can directly impact company KPIs like user growth and revenue.

Hanson Ho was there in 2015. For 7+ years, he helped build observability into the Android app and org. Listen as he describes how observability changed mobile at Twitter: what was recorded, how it was used, what results were achieved – and how the lessons learned can be applied by anyone that operates mobile apps, both in the tech and in the org.

Speakers

Hanson Ho

Android Architect, Embrace (this is not a talk about the company)

Hanson was the former Tech Lead of Android Performance and Stability at Twitter, where he spent a lot of time on collecting and interpreting performance data in order to improve the app experience for all Twitter users on all Android devices all around the world. He is now at Embrace... Read More →

Tuesday April 1, 2025 14:40 - 15:05 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room B

Observability Day, Observability Success Stories and Misfortunes

Content Experience Level Intermediate
Event + Breaks Observability Day

CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025

Hanson Ho

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