Weekly thread
Week 2026-W37
In week 2026-W37 (2026-09-07 to 2026-09-13), 10 engineering stories were published across 5 Indian tech companies, including “Honoring #IconsOfQuality: Debbie O'Brien” from BrowserStack.
- Honoring #IconsOfQuality: Debbie O'Brien
To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality.
- AI x QA Leadership Summit 2026: Building the AI-Native QA Engine
BrowserStack's 11th QA Leadership Summit runs 23 September 2026, free and virtual. Two tracks: AI strategy and governance for QA leaders, applied AI testing for practitioners. Speakers from AWS, Amazon, Atlassian, KPMG and S&P Global.
- Honoring #IconsOfQuality: Keith Klain
To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality.
- From Experimentation to Scale: PhonePe’s AI Journey in HR
At PhonePe, our strategy for AI in HR was never about deploying a single, generic solution. Instead, we set out to build a fit for purpose ecosystem prioritizing speed, flexibility, and accuracy embedded directly into daily workflows. AI Readiness began before AI. We have been…
- Honoring #IconsOfQuality: Richard Bradshaw
To celebrate the relentless passion and invaluable contributions of leaders in software quality, BrowserStack is proud to honour Icons of Quality.
- See the Blast Radius, Ship Without the Fear!
by Govind Aadithya Sripada Every two weeks, Freshdesk shipped changes to production — and every two weeks, we did it scared. Hundreds of commits across Ruby, Java, Ember, React, and infrastructure, all merging at once, and we tested everything to cover ourselves — all 41,000…
- Chunked Twice, Rejected Once: An Istio 502 Mystery
by Palak Bansal, Madhavi Madangopal Modern service architectures are full of well meaning intermediaries: proxies, gateways, sidecars, each one convinced it is helping, and touching your requests on the way through. What happens when those layers interact just slightly wrong? In…
- Groww Lite: Building a Disaster-Resilient Trading System
How we built a minimal, independent path to the exchange that stays up even when the rest of Groww doesn’t. Author: Gaurav Agrawal Why Groww Lite Exists Every large trading platform eventually runs into the same uncomfortable truth: A rich product experience might involve using…
- Zoomable RecyclerView: Enabling Pinch-to-Zoom and Panning in Android RecyclerViews
Introduction Android’s native RecyclerView is exceptionally efficient at handling large datasets through item recycling, but it lacks native support for spatial interactions like pinch-to-zoom and canvas-level panning. For complex layouts—such as interactive retail grids or…
- Five Years of Kafka at Razorpay’s UPI Switch
Preface The UPI Switch at Razorpay has evolved significantly in the five years since we started building it. The Switch is the platform that enables real-time payment processing with NPCI. When the team began, it was little more than an idea. Today it powers more than 70% of…