Weekly Digest
Nov 6 - Nov 12, 2023
6 articles that week
SwiftUI In Action: Prototyping An Interactive 3D Carousel Experience
Jesse Stauffer from Thumbtack built a stunning 3D carousel in SwiftUI—then convinced his team NOT to ship it. Here's why that prototype was still worth every line of code.
Swift 5.9 Backtraces and Debugging
Alastair Houghton from Apple's Swift runtime team just dropped a game-changer for debugging: Swift 5.9 now catches crashes and lets you inspect them interactively before your program dies.
Backend-Driven UI Architecture for Native iOS Apps
Andrea Scuderi from Just Eat reveals why backend-driven UI can be a double-edged sword. His team ships UI changes without app releases, but the testing complexity nearly broke their workflow.
Leveraging Flink to Detect User Sessions and Engage DoorDash Consumers with Real-Time Notifications
Chen Yang and Fan Zhang from DoorDash reveal how they turned annoying cart abandonment notifications into a conversion machine. The secret? Knowing when users actually leave, not just guessing.
Accelerate Your Android Development: Essential Tips to Minimize Gradle Build Time (Part II of II)
Rolgalan from Glovo's Mobile Platform team reveals how they slashed Android build times through hardware and JVM tuning. Most teams are leaving massive performance gains on the table by ignoring these fundamentals.
How Meta built Threads in 5 months
Meta shipped Threads to 100M users in 5 days. The timeline? Just 5 months from idea to launch.