Mobile Performance @ Lyft

Mobile Performance @ Lyft

摘要

In Q2 of 2021, Lyft served 17.1 million active riders through our suite of mobile applications. At this scale, every crash, frozen frame, or hiccup can translate to thousands of hours of wasted time and frustration. Given the potential to impact millions of Lyft’s customers, we doubled our efforts in 2020 to improve our applications’ speed and stability by launching an internal mobile performance initiative.

This is the first in a series of stories detailing our journey to materially improve the speed and stability of our applications. We hope that this can be used by other companies as a reference and inspiration for their own investments in this space.

In this post, we will explore both how and why we started investing in mobile performance at Lyft, and we will dig into our team’s philosophy — everything from how we select projects to how we evaluate success.