Weekly Digest
Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2020
3 articles that week
Friday, Aug 28
Tracing at Slack: Thinking in Causal Graphs
Slack processes 8.5 billion spans daily, but their tracing system looks nothing like traditional distributed tracing. Here's why they rebuilt it from scratch.
Improved Localization with Custom TextView Effects
Anton Begeima from OkCupid's engineering team turned a localization nightmare into an elegant solution. Instead of managing separate images for every language, his team built a custom TextView that handles text effects programmatically.
Wednesday, Aug 26
What Amazon AWS support means for Flutter
Amazon just made a major bet on Flutter. AWS Amplify now officially supports Flutter, and this could be the validation enterprise teams have been waiting for.