Designing an Offline-First Sync Engine for Mobile Apps
7 min read
A deep dive into building a reliable sync engine that keeps mobile apps functional without connectivity, covering conflict resolution, queue management, and real-world trade-offs.
Tagged “architecture”
23 posts
Ad Injection Strategies for Short-Form Video Feeds: Timing, Frequency, and Impression Recovery
9 min read
How ad injection works in short-form video feeds: timing heuristics, frequency capping, impression recovery, and the trade-offs behind monetization.
From Feature to Revenue: How Ad Delivery Decisions Get Made on Mobile
11 min read
How ad delivery decisions actually get made on mobile: the stakeholders, trade-offs, and engineering reality behind every ad you see in a feed.
What I've Learned Shipping Monetization Code to Hundreds of Millions of Users
11 min read
Hard-won lessons from writing code that directly impacts revenue at massive scale. What actually matters when your diff can move millions of dollars.
Why Ad Format Engineering Is One of the Hardest Problems in Mobile
12 min read
Ad formats look simple from the outside, but behind each one is engineering complexity touching rendering, performance, measurement, and user experience.
Why Observability Is the Most Underrated Engineering Skill
4 min read
You can't fix what you can't see. Observability isn't just dashboards and alerts. It's a mindset that changes how you build, debug, and operate software.
What Changes When Your App Has 100M+ Users
4 min read
Scale changes how you think about code, releases, and testing. What shifts when your app serves 100M+ users and every decision has real consequences.
What I Wish I Knew Before My First Big Production Incident
4 min read
Production incidents are inevitable. How you handle them defines your growth as an engineer. Here's what I learned from my first major one.
How I Went From Writing Features to Owning Systems
5 min read
The transition from feature engineer to system owner is the biggest career leap most engineers make. What changed for me and what I wish I'd known.
Handling App Complexity Without Over-Engineering
5 min read
How I manage growing complexity in Android apps without falling into the trap of building abstractions nobody asked for.
How I Think About Technical Debt in High-Velocity Teams
5 min read
Tech debt isn't inherently bad. It's a tool. The problem is when teams accumulate it unconsciously, without tracking it or paying it down strategically.
The Difference Between Shipping Fast and Shipping Well (And When Each Matters)
4 min read
Speed and quality aren't always at odds. But when they are, knowing which one to optimize for is one of the most important judgment calls an engineer can make.
Common Android Architecture Mistakes (and How I Avoid Them)
5 min read
Five architecture mistakes I see repeatedly in Android codebases, from god activities to over-abstraction, and the practical patterns I use to avoid them.
Why I Measure Everything Before I Optimize Anything
4 min read
Optimization without measurement is guessing. And in my experience, engineers guess wrong about what's slow more often than they guess right.
Jetpack Compose Architecture Patterns That Scale
4 min read
Practical architecture patterns for Jetpack Compose that work in real production Android apps at scale, covering state hoisting, navigation, and modularity.
The Android Performance Traps That Don't Show Up in Benchmarks
5 min read
The Android performance problems that hurt users most only appear in the real world, on real devices, with real usage patterns. Here's how to catch them.
My Principles for Writing Maintainable Android Code
4 min read
Code that works today but can't be changed tomorrow is tech debt waiting to happen. Here are the principles I follow to write Android code that lasts.
What I Look For in an Android Code Review
4 min read
Code review isn't about catching typos. It's about protecting the codebase from subtle problems that compound over time. Here's what I actually focus on.
How I Decide Between Jetpack Compose and Views in a Legacy Codebase
4 min read
Compose is the future. Views are the present. When you're working in a codebase with years of XML layouts, the migration question gets complicated fast.
How I Approach System Design as a Mobile App Engineer
4 min read
System design isn't just for backend engineers. Here's how I think about architecture, trade-offs, and scalability from the mobile side.
My Mental Model for Android Architecture in 2025
5 min read
How I think about Android architecture after years of building apps at different scales. The practical version that survives real products and real teams.
Why I Always Start With the Failure Case
5 min read
Why I design for failure before the happy path. Starting with how things break leads to better systems, fewer surprises, and more resilient code.
The Questions I Ask Before Writing a Single Line of Code
6 min read
The most impactful thing I do as an engineer isn't writing code. It's asking the right questions before I start. Here's my checklist.