Weekly Digest
Mar 7 - Mar 13, 2022
4 articles that week
Thursday, Mar 10
Measuring Mobile Apps Performance in Production
Booking.com discovered that standard performance monitoring tools from Apple, Google, and Firebase couldn't meet their needs. So they built their own—and just open-sourced it.
Tuesday, Mar 8
Building a Thoughtful Scaling Framework for Engineering
Robinhood doubled their engineering team in a year while scaling to handle unpredictable market swings. Here's the framework that made it possible without breaking their systems or culture.
Delivering a Million Downloads Every Week
Swiggy's Android team serves 1M+ downloads weekly with 52% of users updating within 5 days. That velocity could be a disaster without bulletproof automation.
Monday, Mar 7
String Index Type Safety in Swift
Grammarly's iOS team discovered their text editing bugs weren't logic errors. They were using the wrong kind of integer.