This is a story of a messaging app used by billions of users. The app followed an extremely strong model of privacy. The app never persisted the user鈥檚 data on the servers. All the communication is end-to-end encrypted. A lot of users of this app, especially, on Android would regularly uninstall and reinstall the app. Now, to prevent these users from losing messages, the messages were backed up to the user鈥檚 SD card....
Google Domains A year back, I had to migrate my domain after Google decided to shut down Google Domains. I had to, not only, painfully setup multiple side-projects sub-domain mappings again on a new domain registrar but also re-verify my domain and re-create those mappings on Google Cloud Run. Google Container Registry Google Container Registry is shutting down in 2025. It has been replaced with a new project called Artifact Registry....
Generated code, ideally, should not be committed to version control. Committing generated code can sometimes speed up testing and code generation but it is a design smell. It is better to cache generated code via CI caching. Committing generated code to version control is the worst as it is hard to even detect the difference. However, there are a few specific circumstances where committing generated code/config/data to version control is worth it....
I use Makefile for Android just like I use Makefile for my non-Android side-projects.
Android has two distinct navigation guidelines as opposed to iOS. Getting them right is nuanced.
If you run any web service always enable support for serving compressed responses. It will save egress bandwidth costs for you. And, more importantly, for your users. Over time, the servers as well as client devices have become more powerful, so, compressing/decompressing data on the fly is cheap.
Hugging Face is GitHub for machine learning models. Their on-the-fly model download scheme, however, is difficult from a DevOps perspective. Here鈥檚 how to disable it.
Poetry is a great build system. And in 2023, I believe, no one should use the pip for a private Python codebase. Getting it right inside Docker is a different issue, however. Consider a simple Flask-based web server as an example Bash 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 # Install poetry $ pip3 install poetry==1....
I recently added adb-enhanced to the Homebrew package manager. Here are some of my learnings and future tips to smoothen up the process.
Let鈥檚 say you want to have two Go packages pkg1 and pkg2 in a monorepo setup. Here鈥檚 what a good project structure would look like.