Weekly Digest
Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2023
4 articles that week
React Native 0.71 RC1 Android Outage Postmortem
A single character in a Gradle config file took down Android builds for every React Native version simultaneously. Here's how the React Native team handled a 4-day global outage.
Migrating to Swift Package Manager
Victor Sarda from Just Eat Takeaway reveals how his team migrated a massive modularized iOS codebase from CocoaPods to Swift Package Manager without blocking a single developer. The secret? Supporting both dependency managers simultaneously.
Gradle Incremental Test Runner
Swiggy's Android team was stuck in a painful cycle: rebasing PRs, waiting hours for full test suites to run, then doing it all over again. One frustrated engineer decided to fix it over a weekend.
Striving for iOS App Performance
Strava's iOS app was slowing down as they scaled to 1 billion activities in 18 months. Their solution? A ruthless focus on "Time to Something Useful."