Weekly Digest
Sep 7 - Sep 13, 2020
4 articles that week
Thursday, Sep 10
Lessons from training teams to use React Native
Coinbase trained 27 engineers on React Native in 3 days during COVID lockdowns. Here's what they learned about scaling technical education.
Wednesday, Sep 9
Tophatting React Native
Charles Zhang from Shopify reveals how they cut React Native code review time from minutes to seconds. The secret? Rethinking how JavaScript bundles get shared between developers.
Tuesday, Sep 8
Motion Engineering at Scale
Airbnb was shipping hundreds of features, but custom animations were getting cut due to complexity. Their solution? A declarative framework that reduced transition code from hundreds of lines to just a few.
Seamlessly Swapping the API backend of the Netflix Android app
Netflix Android engineers migrated 170 API endpoints from a monolith to a new microservice without users noticing. Here's how they pulled it off over a year.