Weekly Digest
Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2021
6 articles that week
Reducing Android Build Time at Scale
Patrick Brochado from BlaBlaCar turned a 13-minute Android build into a 4-minute one. His team was losing 8 hours of productivity every single day to slow builds.
Creating Airbnb's Page Performance Score
Airbnb ditched single-metric performance tracking and built something better. Here's how they unified web, iOS, and Android performance into one 0-100 score.
Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%
Spotify just open-sourced the tool that slashed their iOS build times by 70%. If your developers are waiting 10+ minutes for builds after rebasing, this could be a game-changer.
Monitoring Performance of Screens in Your iOS App
Revolut's iOS team was drowning in vague performance reports. "This screen is laggy" became a detective hunt through Xcode Profiler with no clear starting point.
Android Developers Blog: Improving App Startup: Lessons from the Facebook App
Facebook's Android app serves 2.9 billion users monthly. Their startup optimization strategy cut bad starts by focusing on one counterintuitive metric.
How Tokopedia Achieved 1000% Faster iOS Build Time
Tokopedia's iOS team turned 90-minute builds into 5 minutes. Yes, you read that right: a 1000% improvement.