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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...

This is how DoorDash uses Machine Learning & Optimization Models for delighting their customers

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DoorDash is America’s biggest food delivery platform with more than 56% market share, and globally, the world’s 2nd biggest. Although there exists tons of other food apps/platforms which deliver restaurant food to customers, DoorDash has managed to carve a unique niche for itself in this hyper-competitive market by doing just one thing: Delighting its customers, consistently. Foodies who order from DoorDash are known to be fierce loyalists, as if part of a cult, and they dedicatedly order their food from this app, without fail. How has 9-year-old DoorDash been able to delight its customers and their vendors, consistently? What magic recipes have been used to understand their customers and decode their needs and resolve their pain points? The answer lies in Machine Learning and Optimization Models. We will discuss that shortly, but before that, let’s have an overview of DoorDash, and some fascinating statistics about their operations, which will surely amaze you! DoorDash: America’s big...