Life360 Engineering

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Delivering the best possible app experience to users has always been of the utmost importance at Life360. Ironically, it can be rather…

Section 1: Why view binding and how did we do it?

Lint warnings have a tendency to accumulate. Sometimes, their sheer number makes one balk at fixing them. Most warnings, however, are…

The goal is to test the US-specific features at offshore locations

In early 2020, several reports came in about an odd bug where users would launch the app and be presented with a blank or empty UI.

Like any good tech article let’s start with a small story… For the last few years, we have put in a lot of work into the Life360 app, with…

Many of us have been in this situation: Phone is charged to 100% in the morning, and by lunchtime, it is close to 30%. Now we’re upset and…

Our mission at Life360 is to build the must have Family Membership that helps protect and connect everyone in the family. Today, we do that…

Leslie Lamport, the famed computer scientist who did seminal work in distributed computing, once said that thinking doesn’t guarantee that…

In a previous episode, we outlined the steps we took to pipe data from an NSQ topic to a Kinesis Stream. If that article felt way too…

One really interesting aspect of our work at Life360 is supporting the flow of location messages from millions of devices. Our current peak…

On the Life360 Infrastructure Engineering team, we manage critical system support using a standard multi-tiered on-call schedule…

At Life360, we are focused on building technology that helps families feel safe and together even when they are outside of the home and…

At Life360, our mission is to build technology to give families peace of mind. The mobile team is playing a crucial role in this mission…

Here at Life360 we heavily rely on a device’s location, as well as the context of what they are doing at that location. Knowing what the…

At Life360, we are working to bring peace of mind to families. One way we do that is using sensors and location. We let people be more…

Any excuse for pie is a good excuse. Pi Day, of course, is a great excuse!

When I started my career, it was easy to test a new endpoint: you pointed your browser at the URL for that specific page in the app. Then…