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Curated List of Real-world Design Blog Posts

Real world examples where companies discuss trade-offs of certain technologies and how they design things to fit their use case. Contains a selection of posts that may be targeted to a platform, but concepts should be relevant to all

Here is a big list of company engineering blogs

Backend

• Airbnb
  • How Airbnb is Moving 10x Faster at Scale with GraphQL and Apollo
• Instacart
  • Building Instacart’s view model API — Part 1: Why view model?
• Netflix
  • It’s All A/Bout Testing: The Netflix Experimentation Platform

API Design

• Slack
  • How We Design Our APIs at Slack
  • Evolving API Pagination at Slack
• Trello
  • Adopting GraphQL and Apollo in a Legacy Application
• Twitter
  • Pagination Overview

Build / Platform

• Airbnb
  • Designing for Productivity in a Large-Scale iOS Application
• Facebook
  • Rethinking Android app compilation with Buck
• Pinterest
  • Developing fast & reliable iOS builds at Pinterest
• Reddit
  • iOS and Bazel at Reddit: A Journey
• Uber
  • The Journey To Android Monorepo: The History Of Uber Engineering’s Android Codebase Organization
• Various
  • Monorepo Discussion

Caching / Offline

• Instagram
  • Building an Open Source, Carefree Android Disk Cache
• Trello
  • Airplane Mode: Enabling Trello Mobile Offline
  • Syncing Changes
  • Sync Failure Handling
  • The Two ID Problem
  • Offline Attachments
  • Sync is a Two-Way Street
  • Displaying Sync State

Emerging Markets

• Facebook
  • How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network
• Microsoft
  • Microsoft Teams — Designing for Emerging Markets — Part 1 (Network Profile)
• Spotify
  • How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
• Uber
  • Expanding Access: Engineering Uber Lite

Networking / Performance

• Dropbox
  • Making camera uploads for Android faster and more reliable
• Instagram
  • Improving performance with background data prefetching
  • Making Direct Messages Reliable and Fast
• LinkedIn
  • Building a smooth Stories experience on iOS
• Uber
  • How Uber’s New Driver App Overcomes Network Lag

Networking / Reliability

• SnapChat
  • QUIC at Snapchat
• Uber
  • Engineering Failover Handling in Uber’s Mobile Networking Infrastructure
  • Employing QUIC Protocol to Optimize Uber’s App Performance

Server-Driven UI

• AirBnB
  • A Deep Dive into Airbnb’s Server-Driven UI System
• DoorDash
  • Improving Development Velocity with Generic, Server-Driven UI Components
• Uber
  • Building the New Uber Freight App as Lists of Modular, Reusable Components
  • Architecting a Safe, Scalable, and Server-Driven Platform for Driver Preferences with RIBs
• Various - Strategies Discussion
  • Server-driven UI (or Backend driven UI) strategies

Architecture

• Martin Fowler