Weekly Digest
Mar 6 - Mar 12, 2023
3 articles that week
Friday, Mar 10
The Journey to Server Driven UI At Lyft Bikes and Scooters
Lyft Bikes & Scooters was drowning in complexity: 3 vehicle types, multiple markets, and endless switch statements. Their solution? Move the UI logic to the server.
Tuesday, Mar 7
App Modularization and Module Lazy Loading at Instagram and Beyond
Instagram's app was getting bloated. More engineers, more features, slower cold starts, and ballooning app size threatened the lean experience users loved.
Monday, Mar 6
Building a Modern iOS Networking Library with Swift Concurrency
Emre Havan from Getir rebuilt their entire iOS networking stack from scratch. The result? A modern, async-first library that eliminated memory leaks and cut boilerplate code—but not without hitting some painful Swift concurrency gotchas.