Formalizing our Engineering Principles
Since I joined Cash in August 2021, we’ve undergone unprecedented levels of growth. Growth brings growing pains: the effects of missing organizational structure that become relevant at scale. With the...
Cash Engineering Principles
In 2022, we set out to capture our current Engineering Principles: how high-performing engineering teams do their best work at Cash. We’re proud of the work we did to record...
Molecule: Build a StateFlow stream using Jetpack Compose
Molecule allows you to write imperative reactive code! This is a game changer!
Implementing Kafka in the Payments PCI World
We discuss challenges, innovation and success of the Kafka implementation in Afterpay’s Global Payments Platform in the PCI zone.
Synchronize Dependencies with BOM
Keeping multiple dependencies of the same group in sync can be tricky. BOM makes it safe.
Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 5: Shared Flows
Sometimes, you need to share a Flow with multiple consumers. Read all about how this works in this post.
Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 4: Cold Flows
In this post, everything you could ever need to know and more about how cold Flows work.
Well, That Escalated Quickly
An introduction to Cloud Cover, our AWS IAM tooling
The state of managing state (with Compose)
Five years ago the Cash App Android client started splitting our UI rendering and UI presenter responsibilities into distinct types. We had leaned into RxJava heavily in the years prior,...
Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 3: Deferred & Channels
In this post, we'll cover the foundations of coroutines communications with Deferred and Channel.
Building a Platform for Content Curation
An intersection between the needs of consumers, users, developers, and the future.
Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 2.1: Exceptions
Okay, so there's a bit more to know about structured concurrency. This short-ish addenda covers how exceptions propogate within structured concurrent code.
Android Architecture for the Rocketship - Part 1 : Modularisation
We discuss our approach to modularising the Afterpay Android app in our journey to build a strong and scalable mobile platform, to support our business growth.
Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 2: Structured Concurrency
Everything you could possibly want to know about structured concurrency is in this post.
Obsolete code is slowing you down
As engineering teams, an important measure of our effectiveness is how quickly we are able to build. If we can realize an idea more quickly, we can do more. While...
Sharp Edges in Kotlin Coroutines Testing Tools
At Cash App, we’re starting to integrate Kotlin coroutines into our app architecture. My coworker Bill, who has taken interest and ownership in this migration, came to me the other...
Gradle dependency license validation
Six years ago we added a screen to the Android Cash App to display the open source libraries we use and their licenses. This screen had to be updated manually,...
Migrating from Burst to TestParameterInjector
Square’s Burst library burst onto the scene in 2014 stemming from general dissatisfaction with JUnit 4’s built-in parameterized runner. It enabled the use of enums to vary input to your...
Rx to Coroutines Concepts, Part 1
The reactive paradigm is powerful, but can also be obscure. Coroutines provide an alternative paradigm that is better in every way.
Great teams merge fast
One of the many things I was constantly amazed about during my first few weeks at Square/Cash App was seeing how fast this team shipped code. All members of the...