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How I fixed a memory leak in FlatList that was crashing Spindare's social feed

A real-time social feed with 1000+ posts was grinding to a halt. Here's how I tracked the leak and fixed it for good.

The old auth setup worked fine until it didn't. An honest breakdown of the decision, the rewrite, and what I'd do differently.

I needed a real-time feed for 10k+ concurrent users. Both promised it. Only one delivered.

When your app has 300 components and 3 developers, design tokens aren't optional. This is how we built ours.