Weekly Digest
Apr 30 - May 6, 2018
3 articles that week
Thursday, May 3
5 Reasons Why N26 Is Moving to Kotlin
Pat Kua from N26 shares how the fintech company moved from Java to Kotlin for backend services. Their pragmatic, incremental approach turned a language migration into a productivity win.
Wednesday, May 2
Android Search Performance Improvements (Part 1)
Yelp users were literally grunting while waiting for search results to load. That's when the Android team knew they had a performance problem.
Monday, Apr 30
Android Guild Week at Strava
Todd Santaniello from Strava reveals what happened when their entire Android team stopped shipping features for a week. The goal? Break apart a 6.5-year-old monolithic codebase that was crushing build times and developer velocity.