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New OS releases can break your app overnight. The React Native team shares critical changes in iOS 15 and Android 12 that could impact your users.

Eric Robertson from AWS AppSync reveals how pipeline resolver caching slashed database requests by 99% for some customers. If your GraphQL API is hitting backend services too hard, this changes everything.

Checkmate on Compose Part 1

Company: Bumble · Aug 31, 2021
Platform: Android

Zsolt Kocsi from Bumble built a chess app in Jetpack Compose to solve a problem that's frustrated beginners for years: engines tell you a move is bad, but never explain why.

Android App Excellence: Duolingo

Company: Duolingo · Aug 26, 2021
Platform: Android

Duolingo's Android app was degrading 5-10% every month. New features meant guaranteed performance regressions every 90 days.

Building Android Conversation Bubbles

Company: Slack · Aug 25, 2021
Platform: Android

Mathias Roth from Slack reveals how a hardcoded Android display name prefix saved their Conversation Bubbles implementation. What started as straightforward API work turned into a detective story involving work...

Victoria Gonda from Square tackles a tricky KMP problem: Kotlin/Native doesn't support I/O, yet your shared tests need to read fixture files. Here's the workaround that makes it possible.

GJ Kooijmans from Just Eat Takeaway compares writing software to Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. Both succeed by composing simple parts into harmonious wholes—but most developers struggle with the compositio...

Grab lost 95% of ride bookings for a full minute when a single Redis slave node failed. Their highly available cluster with multiple replicas somehow became a single point of failure.

React Native 0.65 just dropped with performance gains that'll make you rethink your mobile architecture. The Hermes engine upgrade alone is delivering 20-50% improvements on CPU-intensive workloads at Facebook.

Project Bonsai

Company: Grab · Aug 12, 2021
Platform: iOS / Android

Grab's Android app had 4 million lines of code and was bleeding users. Google's research showed every 6MB increase costs 1% of conversions.

Jetpack Compose Support in Workflow

Company: Square · Aug 10, 2021
Platform: Android

Zach Klippenstein from Square reveals how they bridged their state machine architecture with Google's declarative UI toolkit—a year before Compose hit 1.0.

Tokopedia built an automated performance testing pipeline that catches regressions before they hit production. Here's how they measure every build, every night.

Huan Nguyen from Afterpay reveals how they architected their Android rewrite to support hundreds of future developers. The secret? A three-tiered modular structure that makes parallel development actually work.

Revolut's iOS team ships weekly updates with minimal regression. Their secret? Making unit tests actually fun to write.

Tokopedia's Android team achieved a 40% improvement in app start time and page load speed. Here's the systematic approach that got them there.

Microsoft Teams Mobile merges 50+ commits daily from 350+ developers. How do they catch performance regressions before users feel the pain?

Pierce Johnson from Lyft reveals how a custom IntelliJ plugin transformed productivity for 60+ Android developers. The secret? Automating the repetitive tasks that were quietly draining engineering velocity.

Carbon: Dual Binary Mobile App

Company: Uber · Jul 14, 2021
Platform: iOS / Android

Uber rewrote their entire driver app serving 3 million drivers. How do you ship that without breaking your business?

OLX Engineering scaled their Android app across multiple markets without creating code chaos. Here's how they used Gradle source sets to keep things clean.

Airbnb ships features simultaneously across web, iOS, and Android without waiting for app store releases. Their secret? Server-driven UI.

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