Weekly Digest
Oct 25 - Oct 31, 2021
4 articles that week
Thursday, Oct 28
Introducing Swift Distributed Actors
Swift is taking on distributed systems with the same elegance it brought to concurrency. The Swift team just open-sourced a complete cluster library for building distributed actor systems.
Mobile Performance @ Lyft
Lyft was serving 17.1M riders while their Android app launched 15-20% slower than competitors. Time to fix that.
Wednesday, Oct 27
Traveloka Android Dynamic Feature Module Migration
Anisha Inas Izdihar and Yusuf Cahyo Nugroho from Traveloka cut build times by 37% and saved users 15MB of storage. Here's how they migrated 26 modules to Android's Dynamic Feature Module framework.
Tuesday, Oct 26
Making Hermes the Default JavaScript Engine
Meta's Hermes team cut app startup time in half and reduced GC pauses by 34x. Here's how they're making it the default engine for React Native.