Weekly Digest
Dec 18 - Dec 24, 2023
2 articles that week
Tuesday, Dec 19
Optimising the Swiggy Restaurant App
Swiggy's restaurant app was crashing under load. Their React Native app couldn't handle more than 100 orders on budget devices, and they needed to scale 10x.
Monday, Dec 18
Slashing Lead Times by 30%: The Impact of Using Explicit Types in JVM
alexxozo from Glovo's engineering team discovered that a single line of code change slashed their build time by 30%. The culprit? Java's type inference struggling with large Map definitions.