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How Airbnb uses server drive UI to drive its mobile and web apps at scale

pranayairan — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:20:35 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/a-deep-dive-into-airbnbs-server-driven-ui-system-842244c5f5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27679707

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New comment by pranayairan in "Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?"

pranayairan — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 17:50:20 +0000

I think buying themes or designs from marketplaces like themeforest works best for me, I then improve on those things by taking inspiration from similar apps or companies on how they are displaying certain information, navigation flows and try to mimic as much as possible. This gives great results.

New comment by pranayairan in "Why use GraphQL, good and bad reasons"

pranayairan — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 16:33:16 +0000

Coming from Mobile developers experience :

- Graphql does allow you to specify data you need and make the user experience better but this is only true in theory. Since in graphql it is so easy to ask any data there are high chances of your queries not optimized and you end up doing a complex operation spanning multiple domains because you can do it. In REST since domains are tightly defined chances of non-optimized request are less.

- Another major con with GraphQL on mobile is there are no alternatives than Apollo client yet. This ties you to 1 solution for your entire application.

- There are companies that tried to enable Querying over rest. Though it is not as flexible as GraphQL.

New comment by pranayairan in "Inside the strange world of Amazon-to-eBay arbitrage"

pranayairan — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:31:29 +0000

i wonder since he started shipping on his own, can't he put a note in the box and ask people to check if they paid more and give bad ratings to ebay sellers ?

New comment by pranayairan in "Facebook is misleading Indians with its full-page ads about Free Basics"

pranayairan — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 19:38:41 +0000

Indian here, they even started Television ads showing zuke. It is getting out of hand. There VP of Internet org will be doing an AMA on reddit today !!

New comment by pranayairan in "Bootstrapping GCM with Amazon SQS for Server-Client Communication"

pranayairan — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:34:08 +0000

nice are you shutting down the service if queue is empty ?? If not that would drain out the battery, also shutting down service when internet is not available should be good.

New comment by pranayairan in "Myntra, India's largest fashion and apparel e-commerce portal to go mobile only"

pranayairan — Wed, 13 May 2015 15:48:55 +0000

Completely agree, pushing app only offer is key reason people using there app. It is crazy, u promote app everywhere, give heavy app discounts and then say 95% traffic is from app. The main reason i think is notifications, they can bug users even if they don't want to see the offer, this way they will be retaining more users. I get a offer notification every day.

New comment by pranayairan in "Internet.org will finish internet the way we know it, hurt India’s growth"

pranayairan — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 07:52:47 +0000

this will create a rat race, there will be big companies like flipkart paytm willing to offer money to Reliance to offer there sites for free. Internet.org is on a path to destroy net neutrality. Reliance has just found 1 way to earn more money without any ethics.

New comment by pranayairan in "Why are free proxies free? (2013)"

pranayairan — Sun, 04 Jan 2015 08:18:50 +0000

interesting, i never thought about such attack matrix.

New comment by pranayairan in "iOS Developer/Designer Interview Questions"

pranayairan — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 19:01:15 +0000

would love to see similar list for android as well !!

New comment by pranayairan in "How movies embraced Hinduism"

pranayairan — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:57:06 +0000

100 % agreed, not sure why they have written such a bad article

New comment by pranayairan in "Porsche: The Hedge Fund That Also Made Cars"

pranayairan — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:30:58 +0000

such an amazing post. Loved it !!

New comment by pranayairan in "SQLite 3.8.7 is 50% faster than 3.7.17"

pranayairan — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:06:14 +0000

can we expect this version to be included in android L ??

New comment by pranayairan in "Yahoo Lays Off 400 Employees In India"

pranayairan — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 16:01:39 +0000

the numbers are deceptive, TC is reporting 400, Nextbigwhat is reporting 2000

New comment by pranayairan in "Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn"

pranayairan — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 14:58:57 +0000

nice, it will promote more college education for people who drop of due to tuition fees.

New comment by pranayairan in "ISRO Mars Orbiter Mission: Spacecraft successfully enters Martian Orbit"

pranayairan — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:25:24 +0000

Awesome achievement, go go go.

New comment by pranayairan in "I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2"

pranayairan — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:51:00 +0000

yaa, and sharing his experience :)

New comment by pranayairan in "I was asked to crack a program in a job interview, part 2"

pranayairan — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:01:14 +0000

It is sad to know that even after this much worked he did, he was asked to switch and work on something he was not hired for !!

New comment by pranayairan in "Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required"

pranayairan — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:30:58 +0000

we did similar thing in Intuit India, check out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intuit.txt...

We have a platform that enables access of internet services over sms, i did the android app which enables accessing all the content offline as well.

New comment by pranayairan in "Shutting down Uber in India was unwise"

pranayairan — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:47:28 +0000

common, all RBI wants is the service provider to settle money in India if paid by Indian customer to an Indian Customer. What uber is doing is using a different gateway to take money and different country bank to settle the same.

Also the requirement of 2 factor authentication is there for all CNP (Card not present) transaction, you need to understand that the number of fraud which is detected due to international transaction is rising and it becomes very difficult for individuals to process the chargeback. I was victim of card theft used to do international transaction on some random site.

I like this decision, and Uber can use a card reader on the device like Square in India or Pre paid wallet.