Building a Google Assistant App using Dialogflow

The simplest way to create a Data Grid in React

React is one of the coolest technologies to use in Web Development. It has gained tremendous popularity over the last couple of years. I started learning react when I joined Myntra last year and I loved it. The power of creating reusable components is something that really interests me. For…

Realtime Big Data Ingestion with Meterial

Background I got an opportunity to work extensively with big data and analytics in Myntra. Data Driven Intelligence being one of the core values at Myntra so crunching and processing data and reporting meaningful insights for the company is of utmost importance. Everyday millions of users visit Myntra on App or…

Myntra: A Front-end Tech Story

I am an employee as of this writing with Myntra, but these views are my own. Node.js When I joined Myntra in 2013, our tech stack was a monolith of PHP speaking directly to MySQL. Much respect to this stack, it got us to a place where we could consider re-writing…

Data Products — Self Service Query Platform (DDP)

First goal…

Myntra storefront over the years

Over the last decade, Myntra has witnessed several avatars. We went back and chronicled this unbelievable transformation of our storefront using a combination of archival screenshots from our inboxes, google image searches and advanced hard disk recovery from old servers. In this post, we will attempt to chart this journey…

RedEye

I got an opportunity to work extensively with redshift as part of the BI team in Myntra. Redshift powered the core data warehousing logic and enabled business users to query on the data through applications built on top of it. While there were…

Supercharging the Android WebView

Background Hybrid Android applications are mainstream these days. But Android WebViews have a limited access to any of the native resources. I would like to share some techniques which we implemented that improved the load time of our WebViews. Performance of WebViews is very critical, especially when they are a part…

Updating Apps On The Fly

Problem A major problem with apps is that the review process is costly, it takes at least a week for a fix to reach the end user. This demands stricter release cycles as the cost of making mistakes is high. Building cross platform experiences using web views leads to a bad…

Scaling our inventory cache reads to 1000X

Sticky ScrollView - Android

But when it comes to mobile apps, there is no direct way to implement sticky headers or footers for layouts in android. So I decided to create a library which would implement sticky behaviour with android’s ScrollView. It’s called StickyScrollView. StickyScrollView provides both sticky header as well as sticky footer. Sticky Header & Footer with android scrollView StickyScrollView can be used just like android’s scrollview. All you have to do is to replace your ScrollView in your view’s xml with StickyScrollView and specify the references to the layouts which need to be sticky. Here is an example of how a StickyScrollView can be used. <com.amar.library.ui.StickyScrollView xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" app:stickyHeader="@+id/titleLayout" app:stickyFooter="@+id/buttonLayout"> ... <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/titleLayout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> ... </LinearLayout> <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/buttonLayout" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"> ... </LinearLayout> ... </com.amar.library.ui.StickyScrollView> More details are available in github. github.com/amarjain07/StickyScrollView

My Experience using Fresco

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Mastering layouts with UICollectionView

Introduced in iOS 6, UICollectionView is a more powerful extension of UITableView. While a table view only allows you to layout rows vertically — the number of different interactions that can be implemented…

Real-time contextual type-ahead suggestions

Chapter I: The Motivation TL;DR We want to provide smart type-ahead suggestions, based on short-term user activity context. We aim to reduce the friction of finding the right product for a shopper at Myntra. Our Contextual Type-Ahead in Progress. Elucidation: Here we glance over regular suggestions, set Cushion Covers as the context and then…

Blueprint: Qualitative and Quantitative Clickstream Event Analysis

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Building Myntra Zero — A High Performance Progressive Web App

Also, with the exception of large (Tier I) cities, most users use a low…

Six months at Myntra

It was after an exhausting wait through September, and halfway into October last year, that I finally got the email I was in anxious anticipation of. I had made my way through the majority of the placement season (seventh semester of college) and was yet to find the opportunity I…

Universal Dashboarding Platform (UDP) — Data Visualisation Platform at Myntra

Data visualisation is…

Optimisation using Sparklens

Semantic Search — Innovation at scale!

My Myntra Internship

Vulcan: Inventory Redistribution at Myntra

Redistribution Model: 1. Problem Statement At Myntra a section of our supply…

Myntra Scheduler Service

Myntra has an in house service named Yantra. It is actually event processing engine that manages a state machine and triggers actions based on events and changes state. Yantra handles multiple event based state machine workflows like sending notifications, generating feeds and sending mailers on events, such as user have…

Building Scalable Web Services in Golang

For the past few months, I have been neck-deep in writing and rewriting services in Golang. Be it migrating a service from NodeJs, or merely restructuring a hastily put together Go package, it’s been a lot of fun learning and developing a modus operandi that makes the dev…

How to build a technology platform

Let’s try to build a logistics technology platform for the world! What platform? SaaS platform for…