Supercharging App Startup with HTTP/3: Lessons from Foodpanda

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Foodpanda (DeliveryHero) moves app startup traffic to HTTP/3 using Cronet and a custom bridge called okronet that keeps OkHttp APIs. Measured results: 51% improvement in connection times, critical home requests start 4.4x faster, and total response P90/P95 improves ~14.5% / 17.9% respectively across markets. Server changes stay at the edge, 0‑RTT and connection migration are enabled, and the OKronet client library is being open sourced in October.

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1. 0:00HTTP/3 and app startup
2. 8:31Single HTTP request breakdown
3. 16:23HTTP/2 vs HTTP/3 performance
4. 23:11Adopting HTTP/3 backend
5. 27:25Okronet for Android HTTP/3
6. 30:40Foodpanda HTTP/3 impact
7. 33:53Q&A

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