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Meta's MobileLab: Prevent Mobile Performance Regressions

Original post MobileLab: Prevent Mobile Performance Regressions

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Facebook ships thousands of commits daily to their mobile apps. How do you catch a 1% performance regression before millions of users feel it?

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