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Dropbox rewrote their Android camera uploads feature from scratch. It took 2 engineers 2 full years, but first-time uploads now finish 4x faster.
Sam Moore from Betterment shares how his team rewrote 85% of their mobile app in just over a year without disrupting users. The secret? A methodical approach to adopting Flutter that prioritized team buy-in ove...
Snap rewrote their entire messaging system in C++ to solve a problem that plagues most mobile teams: platform inconsistency causing bugs and doubled engineering effort.
Cash App's Jake Wharton just open-sourced their solution to a problem every mobile team faces: state management code that's impossible to read.
Grammarly's Android keyboard gets used 70+ times per day by the average user. Building it meant solving problems most app developers never face.
Uber threw away years of code and rebuilt their rider app from scratch. Here's why that radical decision paid off.
Spotify lifted the 10,000 Liked Songs limit. But that simple feature request triggered a year-long architecture overhaul affecting 100,000 lines of code.
Gojek's driver app serves 2 million+ partners who depend on it for their daily income. When the app goes down for even an hour, drivers lose significant earnings—so a rewrite was high stakes.
Uber rewrote their entire driver app with hundreds of engineers over 18 months. Joel Spolsky once called rewrites 'the single worst strategic mistake' a software company can make.
Alizée Camarasa from BlaBlaCar shares hard-won lessons from migrating to Android O. Spoiler: their first solution caused app-wide deadlocks.
Uber completely rewrote their rider app from scratch. Here's why they threw away years of code and started over.