Weekly Digest
Aug 16 - Aug 22, 2021
3 articles that week
Thursday, Aug 19
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.
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.
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.