IntroductionIn the dynamic landscape of e-commerce, data is the bedrock of decision-making, and app stability is the foundation of user experience. At Myntra, where millions of users engage with our platform daily, ensuring the reliability of both is paramount. This necessity drove us to re-architect a critical piece of our infrastructure: the persistence layer of the Myntra app’s analytics SDK. This post details our journey of augmenting our legacy analytics SDK with a robust new persistence engine backed by SQLite[1], achieving significant gains in app stability and data…
Every iOS application starts as a monolith. Xcode’s default project structure places all source files, resources, and build configuration into a single module (or target, for all the iOS devs reading this). For small apps, this works fine. For a 10+ year old financial application with roughly 2,000 Swift and a handful of Objective-C files,... Read more
IntroductionIn the fast-paced world of e-commerce, every millisecond and every pixel counts. At Myntra, where visual content drives discovery and engagement, we embarked on a critical mission: to revolutionise how animations are delivered in our Android and iOS apps. This journey led us to transition from the ubiquitous GIF format to more efficient video formats, unlocking significant performance gains and a superior user experience.Background on GIFsThe Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has been a widely-used format for looping animations since its introduction in 1987. Its simplicity and…
Scaling iOS at Bumble: Part 2/3 — The AssessmentRecapIn our previous post we discussed how we came to be investigating project and build toolchain replacement solutions for our iOS codebase at Bumble Inc. We began executing proofs of concept for Swift Package Manager (SPM), Tuist and Bazel.The ProcessOur investigative process for each tool was performed in roughly the same manner:1. OnboardingWith the exception of some light use of SPM as a third-party dependency manager, no-one on the team was fully fluent with any of the tools. This meant that at first, we needed to learn the basics, which…
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