Weekly Digest
Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2020
4 articles that week
Performance testing on the web
Tianguang Zhang from Flutter reveals how to catch performance bugs before they reach production. His automated testing approach measures frame rendering down to the millisecond.
Swift Atomics Library
Karoy Lorentey from Apple just dropped Swift Atomics, bringing C/C++ style low-level atomic operations directly into Swift. This changes the game for systems programmers who've been blocked from building concurrent data structures in pure Swift.
Learning Flutter's new navigation and routing system
John Ryan from Flutter's team tackles one of mobile dev's messiest problems: navigation. But the solution might be more complex than the problem itself.
Custom View from Scratch Part III: Performance and Optimisation
Eugene Zubkov from Revolut hit a wall building a custom Android chart: it literally disappeared due to texture size limits. His debugging journey reveals critical performance traps most Android devs don't see coming.