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Amit chakraborty

Oct 21

Product management for engineers · 2. Discovery: talking to users without leading them

#tutorial #product #productmanagementforengineers #howdoiavoidleadingtheuser

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 21

Deep‑link navigation in Expo Router exceeding the performance budget

#reactnative #performance #expo #android

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 21

Unexpected behaviour of Expo Router deep links in production

#reactnative #expo #android #ios

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 20

Go, from zero to a running service · 1. Why Go exists and what it optimises for

#tutorial #languages #go #whatgowasbuilttosolve

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 20

Incrementally migrating a React Native app to Fabric without a release freeze

#reactnative #fabric #android #ios

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 20

Startup‑time regression: deciding if a Hermes rewrite is worth it

#reactnative #hermes #android #performance

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 20

JavaScript from absolute zero · 1. What a program is, and running your first line today

#tutorial #languages #javascriptfromabsolutezero #whatdoesitmeantorunaprogram

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 20

When a Fabric rewrite feels faster but you can’t prove it

#reactnative #fabric #android #performance

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 19

React, deeply · 1. Rendering and reconciliation: what React does on a state change

#tutorial #web #react #whatdoesastateupdatetrigger

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 19

Reconciling Dual Crypto and Fiat Payments in a Mobile App

#fullstack #idempotency #reactnative

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 19

Engineering Resilient Systems for a Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake in Pakistan

#engineeringresponse #earlywarningsystems #systems #reliability

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 19

Startup‑time regression after enabling Hermes in a React‑Native app

#reactnative #hermes #android #react

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 19

React Native, from a blank machine to a shipped app · 1. What a React Native app actually is

#tutorial #mobile #reactnative #whichthreadpaintsthescreen

12 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 19

Measuring the impact of a React Native Skia rewrite before you commit

#reactnative #skia #android #ios

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 18

Engineering practice: git, code, tests · 1. Git as a thinking tool

#tutorial #craft #engineeringpractice #whyagoodcommitmessagematters

10 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 18

Enforcing a concrete performance budget for Expo EAS builds and OTA updates

#reactnative #expo #performance #observability

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 18

The AI tools panel · 1. The landscape: what each tool is genuinely good at

#tutorial #aiengineering #theaitoolspanel #whichtaskdoesthemodelexcelat

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 18

Agent engineering: MCP, subagents and agentic systems · 1. What an agent is, minus the marketing

#tutorial #aiengineering #agentengineering #whatdoesthelooplooklike

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 18

Deep‑link crashes in Expo Router when the app hits real traffic

#reactnative #expo #android #ios

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 18

Unexpected UI glitches after enabling React Native Fabric

#reactnative #fabric #android #hermes

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 17

Migrating a React Native app to the new EAS build and OTA workflow without a release freeze

#reactnative #expo #migrations #ios

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 17

The blockchain bootcamp · 1. The vocabulary

#tutorial #blockchain #theblockchainbootcamp #whatdoesablockreallycontain

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 17

The forward-deployed engineer bootcamp · 1. What a forward-deployed engineer is, and why the role exists now

#tutorial #career #theforward #whyhastheroleexplodedsince2020

10 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 16

Startup‑time budget for React Native apps using Hermes

#reactnative #hermes #android #performance

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 16

Choosing the first ten architecture decisions as a founding engineer – which ones compound and which are cheap to reverse

#foundingengineer #architecture #caching #migrations

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 16

Enforcing a measurable performance ceiling for the Fabric renderer

#reactnative #fabric #performance #mobileperformance

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 16

Production failures: the things that page you · 3. Retry storms

#tutorial #reliability #productionfailures #whythenaiveretrywrapperfails

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11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 16

Unexpected UI‑Thread Jank When Using Reanimated 4 Worklets

#reactnative #reanimated #mobileperformance #android

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 15

MLOps: models that survive production · 3. Features: stores, and the simpler thing that usually works

#tutorial #aiengineering #mlops

13 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 15

Unexpected jank and memory spikes after adding React‑Native‑Skia to a production app

#reactnative #skia #android #mobileperformance

7 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 15

Engineering the Response Infrastructure for a Magnitude 6.7 Mid‑Atlantic Ridge Earthquake

#engineeringresponse #earlywarningsystems #systems #reliability

5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 15

Incrementally Migrating to Reanimated 4 Worklets without a Freeze Window

#reactnative #reanimated #jsi #migrations

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 15

The DevOps bootcamp · 3. The shell: pipes, scripts and automating your own machine

#tutorial #devops #thedevopsbootcamp #beginners

10 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

Migrating React Native Native Modules without a Release Freeze

#reactnative #android #turbomodules #migrations

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

FastAPI in production · 2. Pydantic as your API contract

#tutorial #backend #fastapiinproduction

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

Reanimated 4 worklets: production‑only breakage and early detection

#reactnative #reanimated #android #hermes

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

Building Setu: A Local-First Sharing Experience for Android — Looking for Early Testers

#showdev #android #buildinpublic #mobile

3 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

# Building Setu: Exploring Local-First Sharing on Android

#architecture #testing #crypto #web3

3 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

Product management for engineers · 1. What a product manager does all day

#tutorial #product #productmanagementforengineers #whatapmactuallyowns

11 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 14

Reanimated 4 worklets: enforcing a measurable performance budget

#reactnative #performance #reanimated #mobileperformance

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 10

The Hermes Bytecode Trap: Why Your App is Fast in Development and Slow in Production

#reactnative #hermes #android #performance

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5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 9

Defending the 16ms Frame: A Performance Budget for React Native Skia

#reactnative #skia #performance #jsi

5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 9

Measuring the ROI of TurboModules before you commit to the rewrite

#reactnative #turbomodules #architecture #performance

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 9

Production failures: the things that page you · 2. Thundering herd: when the cache expires all at once

#tutorial #reliability #productionfailures #howdowedecoupletheexpiry

8 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 9

Why Your Lighthouse Score is Lying About Your Core Web Vitals Regression

#frontend #corewebvitals #performance #architecture

5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 8

MLOps: models that survive production · 2. Data versioning

#tutorial #aiengineering #mlops #whygitcannotholdyourdata

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9 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 8

Defending the 16ms Frame: A Performance Budget for React Native TurboModules

#reactnative #turbomodules #jsi #performance

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 8

The hidden cost of TurboModules: Why Codegen is not a free lunch

#reactnative #turbomodules #jsi #architecture

5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 8

The DevOps bootcamp · 2. The Linux you actually need

#tutorial #devops #thedevopsbootcamp #howdoyoufindwhatisholdingaport

9 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 8

The Silent Deadlock: Debugging Fabric Renderer Stalls in Production

#reactnative #fabric #architecture #newarchitecture

5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 7

FastAPI in production · 1. FastAPI in one hour

#tutorial #backend #fastapiinproduction #whydocumentationdriftsfromcode

9 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 7

The Hidden Performance Ceiling of React Native Skia in Production

#reactnative #skia #performance #react

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Oct 7

The Hidden Failure Modes of React Native TurboModules and Codegen

#reactnative #turbomodules #jsi #android

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 27

I Built My Portfolio With Lovable — And It Made Me Rethink What Web Development Costs

#ai #webdev #productivity #architecture

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9 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 14

Let’s Build Your First Electron App: The Magical Feed App!

#engineering

1 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 14

Say Goodbye to Git Woes: Become a Git Wizard Today! ‍♂️

#engineering

3 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 14

Hermes Bytecode and the Cold-Start Budget: Engineering Time-to-Interactive as a Product Requirement

#engineering

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 14

Achieving 60fps on Budget Android Hardware: Offloading Image Decode and ML Preprocessing

#react #mls #reactnative

6 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 11

Migrating to React Native Skia without a feature freeze

#reactnative #skia #jsi #react

3

5 min read

Amit chakraborty

Sep 11

On-Device Computer Vision Under 16 Milliseconds

#aiengineering #computervision #webgpu #performance

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6 min read