Introduction Background execution on mobile sounds deceptively simple: “run this task even when the app is not open.” Anyone who has shipped a real production app knows how misleading that sentence is. On both iOS and Android, background tasks live under strict OS control. Battery life, thermal limits, privacy, and
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The DOM Performance Ceiling When architecting our IoT monitoring platform at Hoomanely, we knew we'd be dealing with device data that scales exponentially. Our device status dashboard needed to display real-time information across hundreds of connected devices—device IDs, user details, heartbeat status, timestamps—all updating constantly. Drawing
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Every social application eventually hits the "Feed Scaling Wall." It usually happens when your first power user follows their 500th account, and your once-snappy SELECT * query starts taking 200ms. Then 500ms. Then timeouts. To preempt this bottleneck at Hoomanely, we architected our system for scale from Day One.