Weekly Digest
Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2024
8 articles that week
Measuring Product Impact Without A/B Testing: How Discord Used the Synthetic Control Method for Voice Messages
Discord wanted to measure Voice Messages impact, but A/B testing would break the feature. Network effects meant users in control groups couldn't receive voice messages from treatment users.
How We Reduced GrabX SDK Initialisation Time
Grab's SDK was taking 4 minutes to initialize with 400MB of config data. That's a cold start problem that kills autoscaling.
Building a Floating View in Android: A Practical Approach - Final Part
Demonstrates implementing floating views in Android with practical implementation techniques.
Adding React Native to Signal Open Source App: Part 1 (iOS)
Case study on integrating React Native into an existing iOS application, demonstrating brownfield development practices.
Building a Floating View in Android: A Practical Approach - Part 1
First part of a practical guide to implementing floating views in Android applications.
Performance Analysis: Analyzing performance in Flutter and Handling Jank
Pinhome's engineering team tackled the silent killer of mobile apps: jank. Their Flutter app was stuttering under load, and users were noticing.
iOS 18: Apple's Translation API
Covers implementation and usage of Apple's new translation API in iOS 18 applications.
Brownfield Development with React Native
Callstack reveals how brownfield React Native integration lets you modernize native apps without the dreaded full rewrite. This collection of insights shows exactly how companies like Shopify and Zalando pulled it off.