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SoundCloud's journey to adopt React Native for the Pulse app, balancing native and JavaScript code, building a cross-platform workflow, and learning about testing, integration, and developer happiness.

SoundCloud details its experience adopting React Native to build SoundCloud Pulse for iOS and Android, covering native bridges, web-library reuse, rapid development, testing focus, and the evolving cross-platform mobile workflow.

Exploring the use of React Native in building SoundCloud Pulse, a creators' app, and assessing its maturity as a technology at SoundCloud

Deprecation of Groups endpoints with phased removal by August 22, 2016, outlining GET and PUT request behavior and a migration path for applications.

Deprecation of the Groups endpoints: the API will phase out Groups, making all Groups-related GET requests return no results and PUT changes non-persistent after August 22, 2016.

Reviewing and removing unnecessary Groups endpoints to improve community benefits.

Exploring the significance of special projects in the tech industry

An overview of the current state and key learnings from using synchronous, HTTP/JSON microservice communication with Finagle/jvmkit, including client-side discovery and resilience patterns.

A practical overview of synchronous microservice communication, detailing current status, lessons learned, and how Finagle, HTTP/1.1 with JSON, and client-side discovery influence resilience and operability in a JVM-based stack.

Examining the current state of synchronous communication in microservices and sharing key insights and learnings.

Prometheus' maturation from a SoundCloud pet project to a CNCF-hosted, 1.0-ready open-source monitoring powerhouse, fueled by a vibrant community and open collaboration.