Inellipse - Software Solutions

Mastering Web Performance with Varnish Cache & CDNs! 🚀

As part of our internal Team Growth Talks, Valentino delivered an insightful session on Varnish Cache & CDNs—exploring the fundamentals of caching and how modern solutions are transforming web performance.

Key Takeaways:
✔️ What is Caching & Why It Matters - Understanding how caching reduces server load, accelerates response times, and improves user experience.
✔️ Traditional CDNs Explained - How content delivery networks distribute content globally to serve users from the nearest edge location.
✔️ Introduction to Varnish Cache - A powerful HTTP reverse proxy that caches content in memory for lightning-fast delivery.
✔️ Varnish vs Traditional CDNs - Comparing architectures, use cases, and performance characteristics of different caching approaches.
✔️ Open-source Varnish vs Fastly - Exploring the differences between self-hosted solutions and enterprise-grade managed services.

With the right caching strategy, applications become faster, more scalable, and cost-efficient—handling massive traffic while delivering exceptional user experiences. ⚡

A big thank you to .trifunovski for sharing his expertise and helping our Inellipsians stay ahead in modern web architecture!

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🧠 Mastering Android Studio Memory Profiler

Memory leaks aren't always obvious — even in well-structured apps. That's where Android Studio Memory Profiler becomes your best debugging ally. 💪

We built a clear, repeatable process for detecting and verifying cleanup logic:
1️⃣ Record a controlled session
2️⃣ Force GC and capture heap dumps strategically
3️⃣ Compare dumps to see what stays in memory
4️⃣ Follow reference chains to pinpoint retained objects

Sorting by Retained Size (not just Shallow Size) instantly showed which objects held the most memory, while the Allocation Tracker revealed when new instances appeared.

Profiling turned from guesswork into a data-driven investigation — and the results spoke for themselves.

Big thanks to .manojlovska for contributing to this work! 🙌

📖 Read the full blog — https://www.inellipse.com/fixing-exoplayer-memory-leaks-with-android-studio-memory-profiler/index.html

Building an AI-driven document processing system sounds simple — until you meet real-world data.
📄 Blurry scans, handwritten notes, inconsistent checkboxes… they challenge even the best off-the-shelf tools.
At Inellipse, we faced these challenges head-on while building a custom Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) solution for the mortgage industry.
We learned two key lessons:
✅ Checkbox detection isn’t trivial — it needs precise region isolation, adaptive thresholding, and smart contour analysis.
💡 Prompt design is everything — clear, context-rich instructions make AI extractions reliable and consistent.

These aren’t just technical wins — they’re what make real-world automation possible.

Because in document processing, clarity beats complexity, and engineering beats guesswork.

👀 Check out our new blog post to see how we solved these challenges and what we learned along the way.

🔗 Read the full story: Practical Approaches to Document Processing with AI
https://www.inellipse.com/practical-approaches-to-document-processing-with-ai/index.html

Special thanks to Катерина Ристевска for contributing to this journey! 🙌

🔧 Roku Developer Summit 2025 — Highlights & Insights 🚀

We explored the newest tools and updates from Roku this year — and it’s clear the platform is evolving fast.

✨ Key Takeaways:

🚀 Faster Performance
💰 Smarter Monetization
🌎 Global Reach
☁️ Cloud Emulator coming in 2026
🎬 Prebuffer streaming & smoother playback

Read the full blog post 👇
https://www.inellipse.com/roku-developer-summit-2025/index.html

🔧 Case study: Stabilizing long-session streaming
We traced a memory leak in Shaka Player v4.16.0 🕵️‍♂️💻 to retained EMSG events piling up in segment buffers—causing memory growth, UI lag, and occasional crashes 🛑 on Smart TVs 📺.
💡 Our fix: custom EMSG removal + stricter buffer pruning during playback.
🚀 Result: steady memory ✅, smoother playback 🎬, longer sessions ⏳.
🙏 Thanks to Anastasija for writing the deep-dive!
👉 Swipe for the breakdown → full write-up on our blog 👇.
https://www.inellipse.com/memory-leak-shaka-player/index.html

🚀 Team Growth Talk — The Future of Cross-Platform Development

In today’s session, we had the pleasure of hearing from Snezhana Manojlovska, who delivered a powerful presentation on one of the most exciting technologies in modern app development: Flutter.

✨ Flutter, developed by , is a game-changing UI toolkit that allows developers to create natively compiled apps for mobile, web, and desktop — all from a single codebase. Snezhe took us on a journey through what makes Flutter so powerful:

⚡️ Hot Reload for real-time changes
🧩 200+ customizable widgets
💡 A beautifully declarative UI model
🚀 Native performance across platforms

She explained how Flutter bridges the gap between speed and flexibility — empowering teams to move fast, iterate freely, and deliver consistent experiences across devices. Whether you're building for Android, iOS, Chrome, or even macOS, Flutter keeps your code clean and your UI beautiful.

🛠️ Snezhe also unpacked how state management, platform-specific code, and network requests are handled in Flutter — all while making it beginner-friendly and fun.

🌍 It’s clear that Flutter isn’t just a framework — it’s a mindset shift for teams building cross-platform apps in 2025 and beyond.

🙏 Huge thanks to Snezhe for the clarity, energy, and inspiration!
Looking forward to putting some of this knowledge into action. 🙌

🎯 Want Faster Websites?
Inellipse, your Fastly partner, spills the beans on VCL configs that make caching a pro game—custom TTLs for streams, query clean-ups, and more!
🚀 See how we slash load times and boost performance for our clients. Click to learn the tricks and level up your site!

👉 https://www.inellipse.com/fastly-pro-tips-vcl-configs-we-use-to-cache-like-pro/index.html

📱 Build once, run everywhere? Yes, please!

Angela Stojkovska broke it down in our latest Team Growth Talk:
“Build Native Mobile Apps Using JavaScript & React”

She made feel super approachable — showing how you can build both iOS & Android apps with one codebase.

🚀 Why it’s awesome:
🔹 Fast development (hello, hot reloading!)
🔹 Reusable components like View, Text, ScrollView
🔹 Powered by JavaScript — no need to start from scratch
🔹 Backed by Meta & used by apps like Instagram

⚙️ Angela even demo’d — scan a QR, and your app runs instantly.
She explained the difference between state vs props like a pro 🙌

🟢 Pros: speed, simplicity, cross-platform
🔴 Cons: some native feature limits (but workarounds exist!)

We left energized and inspired. Big thanks, Angela 💙
Let’s build smart, not twice.

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