Mobile Development Tales and Thrills with Hanson Ho

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What happens when your mobile app needs to perform flawlessly across thousands of different devices? Meet Hanson Ho - Android Architect at Embrace. In this episode, Hanson shares battle-tested strategies from his experience at Twitter and beyond. Diving deep into real-world challenges, Hanson reveals how mobile observability has evolved from basic crash reporting to sophisticated performance measurement. Learn why traditional monitoring falls short in mobile environments, how to measure what truly matters for user experience, and why the industry is rallying around OpenTelemetry as a standard.

Where to Find Hanson

• Blog: https://hanson.wtf
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hanson-ho/
• Twitter: https://x.com/bidetofevil
• BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bidetofevil.wtf

Show Links

• CNCF: https://www.cncf.io/
• OpenTelemetry: https://opentelemetry.io/
• Embrace Mobile SDK: https://github.com/embrace-io/embrace-android-sdk
• Android Compose: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose

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