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Bevan Christian from IDN Engineering tackles a problem every iOS dev knows: that janky scroll when images load in UITableView. His solution? iOS's built-in prefetching API that most developers overlook.

Zoey Fan from Google's Flutter team just dropped a major update to their Casual Games Toolkit—and it's packed with templates that could save you weeks of setup time. If you've been curious about Flutter for gam...

Swiggy's Android team was hitting scroll performance walls with traditional RecyclerViews. Their solution? Facebook's Litho framework, which delivered massive performance gains.

Thiago Brezinski explores why building Web3 apps in React Native hits a wall with Wagmi's browser-first architecture. His solution? WalletConnect's Web3Modal bridges the gap.

Jesse Stauffer from Thumbtack built a stunning 3D carousel in SwiftUI—then convinced his team NOT to ship it. Here's why that prototype was still worth every line of code.

Alastair Houghton from Apple's Swift runtime team just dropped a game-changer for debugging: Swift 5.9 now catches crashes and lets you inspect them interactively before your program dies.

DoorDash was sending cart abandonment notifications to users who were still actively browsing. The result? Annoying customers and missing conversion opportunities.

Andrea Scuderi from Just Eat reveals why backend-driven UI can be a double-edged sword. His team ships UI changes without app releases, but the testing complexity nearly broke their workflow.

Rolgalan from Glovo's Mobile Platform team reveals how they slashed Android build times through hardware and JVM tuning. Most teams are leaving massive performance gains on the table by ignoring these fundament...

How Meta built Threads in 5 months

Company: Meta · Nov 6, 2023
Platform: Android

Meta shipped Threads to 100M users in 5 days. The timeline? Just 5 months from idea to launch.

Uber deploys 11,000 code changes weekly. How do they catch crashes before users notice? They built Healthline, powered by Apache Pinot.

Spotify's mobile apps generated 930+ petabytes of network traffic in 2022, equivalent to 65,000 tons of CO2 emissions. Their solution? A comprehensive app size management system that's both environmentally cons...

DoorDash's team cracked a classic mobile dilemma: how do you push FAQ updates instantly without waiting weeks for app store approvals? Their solution cut deployment time from 2+ weeks to under 24 hours.

Rolgalan from Glovo cut Android build times by 75%—from 1 hour down to 15 minutes. Here's how they did it, and why most teams are leaving massive performance gains on the table.

Gojek discovered that 11 of their top destinations in Jakarta weren't restaurants or malls. They were train stations and bus hubs.

Glance Game Centre serves millions of daily users playing HTML5 games on their lock screens. Their leaderboard system hit a wall with a single-node MongoDB struggling under 1000 QPS.

Media on Swiggy's Mobile Apps

Company: Swiggy · Oct 17, 2023
Platform: iOS / Android

Swiggy's mobile apps serve millions of users across wildly different devices and network conditions. How do you deliver high-quality images and videos without killing performance or burning through bandwidth co...

Cash App's monolith CI builds were taking 30 minutes at p50. Developers were stuck waiting through multiple build cycles just to get a green merge.

The CEO of Very Good Ventures shares a surprising discovery: Flutter doesn't just speed up development, it fundamentally reshapes how engineering teams work together. And the culture shift might be more valuabl...

Instagram DMs handle millions of messages per second. How do they make every send feel instant, even when your network drops mid-tap?

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