Weekly Digest
Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2021
3 articles that week
Thursday, Aug 19
Preventing Pipeline Calls from Crashing Redis Clusters
Grab lost 95% of ride bookings for a full minute when a single Redis slave node failed. Their highly available cluster with multiple replicas somehow became a single point of failure.
Flutter Hot Reload
Jens Johansen from Google's Dart team reveals how they made Flutter's hot reload 30% faster. The optimization saves Flutter developers collectively over a year of waiting time every 5 days.
Tuesday, Aug 17
React Native 0.65 Release
React Native 0.65 just dropped with performance gains that'll make you rethink your mobile architecture. The Hermes engine upgrade alone is delivering 20-50% improvements on CPU-intensive workloads at Facebook.