Redshift vs Athena — Clash of The Titans

Wattpad is a platform that allows writers to publish stories and readers to read millions…

Reuse of ViewModel-Backed Fragments

At Wattpad, we recently started using Android Architecture Components as the preferred…

The Architecture Powering the Wattpad Home Experience

How we use iteration at Wattpad to consistently improve our design

Rebuilding Home on Wattpad and…

Growing Subscription Revenue in a Freemium Product

Using Nginx as a proxy for ElasticSearch (and how to stop blaming the sun)

We use ElasticSearch to power our search infrastructure. It’s fast, scalable, and usually quite stable. That isn’t a knock against ElasticSearch, but its stability is very dependent on how you setup and…

Automated StoreKit Testing at Wattpad

If you have worked with in-app purchases before, you likely know that purchasing an IAP is…

A Journey of Discovery: Using Server-Driven UI to Power the Wattpad Homepage

Search at Wattpad via Elasticsearch

Here at Wattpad we serve 80+ million users monthly. A vast amount of our traffic is from Wattpad…

ML Innovation Highlights at Wattpad

Latest ML works from Wattpad.