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Instagram's Android app had a JSON parsing problem that was killing their News feed performance. Traditional solutions weren't cutting it.

Migrating to Apollo 1.0 for iOS

Company: Thumbtack · Jul 12, 2023
Platform: iOS

Scott Southerland from Thumbtack reveals how their iOS app hit a breaking point: 8-minute builds, mysterious crashes, and 80,000-line auto-generated files that finally stopped compiling altogether.

Introducing Swift HTTP Types

Company: Swift.org · Jul 10, 2023
Platform: iOS

Apple just open-sourced Swift HTTP Types, and it's about to change how iOS and server-side Swift developers handle HTTP. No more converting between URLRequest and SwiftNIO types.

Bevan Christian uncovered why users were mysteriously logged out of a major startup's iOS app for years. The culprit? A homegrown token refresh mechanism that created race conditions nobody noticed.

Flipkart shaved 30% off page load times in their React Native app with 500M weekly visits. Here's how they did it without rewriting everything.

Improving Video Cache Hits on Swiggy Apps

Company: Swiggy · Jun 20, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy was bleeding money on video bandwidth costs. The culprit? Videos being requested at 270px, 272px, 275px... you get the idea.

Network Latency Issues in Mobile Apps

Company: Datadog · May 26, 2023
Platform: Android / iOS

Anatole Beuzon and Bowen Chen from Datadog turned what seemed like a simple deployment alert into a months-long debugging odyssey. What they uncovered reveals how deceptively complex network latency issues can ...

Pepperfry's engineering team cut API response times by parallelizing requests. Here's how they used Java multi-threading to handle scale without blocking.

Timothy Hoang from Google just dropped major updates to Flutter's mobile ads plugin. If you've been writing platform code just to customize native ads, that pain point is officially solved.

Emre Havan from Getir rebuilt their entire iOS networking stack from scratch. The result? A modern, async-first library that eliminated memory leaks and cut boilerplate code—but not without hitting some painful...

Fan-tastic Search for Blazing Fast Results

Company: Swiggy · Dec 20, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy's search feature was a mess: 2,000+ lines in a single ViewModel, monolithic XML files, and performance issues. Time for a complete rewrite.

Zomato's Android app was slow. Their network layer was the bottleneck, costing them speed, bandwidth, and user patience.

AWS Amplify just shipped three game-changing features that make querying relational data feel less like a chore and more like writing plain JavaScript. If you've ever wrestled with loading nested data in offlin...

Debugging High Latency in the Market Store

Company: Grab · Oct 20, 2022
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's ML feature store went from 200ms to 2 second latency. The culprit? A single line of code in an async library.

Meetup sends 8-10 million notifications daily. Their queue kept backing up, sending messages late or not at all.

Ahmed Alnaami from AirAsia reveals how they solved a debugging nightmare: tracking network traffic across Native, React Native, and WebViews in one super app.

Productionizing Envoy Mobile at Lyft

Company: Lyft · Sep 13, 2022
Platform: Android / iOS

JP Simard from Lyft reveals how they replaced URLSession and OkHttp across all their mobile apps with a single networking library—and the results weren't what anyone expected.

Mehmet Gür from Getir tackles a common Android pain point: uploading files to S3 with real-time progress tracking. His solution avoids the MultipartBody pitfalls that trip up most developers.

OkCredit serves millions in India's Tier-2/3 cities where flaky networks are the norm. Their Android team just cut network call times by 30% with some clever client-side optimizations.

Validating Social Media URLs in Swift

Company: Tokopedia · May 30, 2022
Platform: iOS

Alvin Matthew Pratama from Tokopedia tackles a deceptively complex problem: validating social media URLs when each platform has wildly different URL structures. Regex alone won't cut it.

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