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Tripple: A unique inheritance-based social media app that nurtures your digital legacy

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What happens when a social media user is no more? All the pictures, videos, posts, and memories are buried deep into the inter-web and lost forever. Tripple is changing this by unleashing a new era of inheritance-based social media platforms which is centered around protecting & nurturing the users’ digital legacy. TechAhead has been proudly associated with the team behind this powerful social media platform, and together we conceptualized, designed, developed, and launched this app, and attempted to transform social media. Tripple: Creating & Nurturing your digital legacy Tripple social media platform has been designed and developed to empower users, and give them more control over their information. Once a user joins Tripple, they can create Time Ripples, which will have all their past and present memories, which can also be experienced and viewed when they are no more. Users will have full control over who is able to watch their Time Ripples in the future, which content will

React native applications are now turbocharged with hermes engine: find out how?

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Meta (previously Facebook) has decided to make all React Native applications faster, and turbocharged with Hermes Engine, the new default JavaScript engine. In this blog, we will share how React Native apps will become faster, and leaner, with Hermes Engine, and how mobile app developers specializing in React Native platform can leverage this powerful Javascript engine. But before that, let’s find out more about Hermes Engine and the new updates in React Native 0.70 version. What is hermes engine? As the size and capabilities of mobile apps became complex, bigger, and more demanding, the performance of JavaScript frameworks started to deteriorate. This prompted Facebook to develop Hermes Engine in 2019, which is an open-source JavaScript Engine, optimized for mobile apps. For Facebook-centric apps, created using React Native, Facebook created Hermes Engine to make the apps faster, leaner, and performance-centric. Hermes engine becomes default for all react native apps Starting Septembe

Understanding the legacy of HBO Max & its powerful, scalable technical stack

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Over The Top or OTT Platforms have changed the rules of video consumption across the world. By 2027, around 4 billion users will be accessing OTT platforms like HBO Max, Youtube, Netflix, Disney, and more, generating billions of dollars in advertisement revenues, and unleashing a new era in video content and consumption. With more than 200 million OTT users and subscribers across the world (2021), this is a $150 billion industry. One of the biggest, and fastest growing sections within the Internet and entertainment economy. This is the reason that slowly and gradually, traditional TV channels and TV-based media houses are transitioning to OTT, and that includes HBO. In this blog, we will try to understand and dissect the top-of-the-class scalability and powerful performance of the HBO Max app and share some interesting information about its legacy. The Legacy Of HBO Max 49-year-old HBO, which is the oldest and longest continuously operating subscription television service in the United

Decoding Shazam: How does music recognition work with Shazam app?

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It’s a typical scenario: You listen to a song at a restaurant or an event, and then that song stays with you, haunting you, forcing you to find its source and singer. Earlier, the only option was to replicate that song, or a few verses and ask friends and family to hunt for the source. But since 1999, this changed, because that year, a magical app was born, called Shazam. What Exactly Is Shazam? Shazam is an app that can recognize music, movies, advertising, and television shows, and showcase the source and other details about that content. It seems magical, right? In this blog, we will decode the internal working of Shazam, and find out how it works. But first, let’s have an overview of Shazam, and find out some startling facts about this app. Shazam: A brief history Shazam was launched in 1999 by Chris Barton, Philip Inghelbrecht, Avery Wang, and Dhiraj Mukherjee, who teamed up to create a system that can recognize music and other related content and reveal everything about them. In