Weekly Digest
Aug 26 - Sep 1, 2019
3 articles that week
Sunday, Sep 1
A Day in the Life of a Mobile Product Engineer at Slack
Kevin, a Staff Engineer at Slack, shares how a distributed mobile team ships features across Vancouver and San Francisco without stepping on each other's toes. His secret? Strategic work separation and dogfooding daily builds.
Friday, Aug 30
Gradle Remote Build Cache Optimization
Nelson Osacky from SoundCloud reveals how simply turning on Gradle's remote build cache got them almost zero cache hits. The real work was hunting down why.
Monday, Aug 26
Running Android Instrumentation Tests on Circle CI Without a Third Party Service
Doğu Deniz Uğur challenges CircleCI's own documentation. While the official docs say Android emulator tests aren't supported on their Linux VMs, he found a workaround that eliminates the need for Firebase Test Lab or other third-party services.