Weekly Digest
Apr 25 - May 1, 2022
5 articles that week
Continuous Load Testing
Slack's engineering team ran into a classic performance testing problem: spinning up load tests was so time-consuming that teams avoided doing it. Their solution? Never stop testing.
React Native Skia At Shopify
Christian Falch and William Candillon from Shopify just solved React Native's biggest weakness. They brought Skia (the graphics engine powering Chrome, Android, and Flutter) directly to React Native developers.
Evolution of the Medium iOS app architecture
Medium's iOS team ditched their monolith for Swift packages and SwiftUI. A year later, they're shipping features faster than ever.
Mobile DevOps Journey: Evolving Mobile Development at Swiggy (Episode 1)
Swiggy's mobile team was drowning in Jenkins bottlenecks. Build times were slow, machines crashed frequently, and manual interventions killed velocity.
One Activity to Rule Them All: Reducing Crashes in the Etsy App
Etsy was getting 1,000 Out of Memory crashes per day on Android. The culprit? A navigation architecture from 2012 that couldn't handle modern browsing behavior.