Video has become an integral part of our lives, and we are witnessing a significant rise in the integration of video content within Android apps. Reddit is not an exception: we have more than 20 video surfaces in our app.

In this talk, I'll share our journey of improving video rendering by 30% and approaches that go beyond what is documented.

We'll discuss: - Video metrics and what's important there - Lifecycle and challenges - Single instance of player vs PlayerPool - SurfaceView vs TextureView performance - ViewPool and AndroidView pitfalls with Jetpack Compose - Potential problems with caching

Everything that will be mentioned is validated through real production scenarios and confirmed in efficiency by A/B tests on millions of Daily Active Users in the Reddit app.

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Learn how Reddit uses a custom monitoring operator to manage Thanos and Prometheus to scale their metrics deployment beyond 45 million samples per second and 600 million active series. To achieve this they run thousands of Prometheus instances of varying sizes managed by their internally developed Kubernetes controller. They use Thanos for long-term storage and global single pane of glass querying across this massive deployment. Learn about the operator, other tools they've developed, and the challenges they've faced along the way.