Weekly Digest
Jul 3 - Jul 9, 2023
4 articles that week
Preventing App Performance Degradation Due to Sudden Ride Demand Spikes
Grab's engineering team faced a brutal problem: rain in Southeast Asia would crash their entire ride-hailing system. When demand spiked locally, users everywhere suffered.
From Hacking to Shipping: Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile at Hootsuite
Hootsuite's mobile team shipped a major product rewrite using Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile—sharing business logic across iOS and Android while keeping native UIs. Here's how they went from hackathon experiment to production.
Native UI and multiplatform Compose with Redwood
Cash App just open-sourced Redwood, their answer to the multiplatform UI problem. Unlike other solutions, it renders with native UI toolkits instead of recreating them.
Leveraging Alamofire Interceptors in iOS: A Real-World Case Study
Bevan Christian uncovered why users were mysteriously logged out of a major startup's iOS app for years. The culprit? A homegrown token refresh mechanism that created race conditions nobody noticed.