Mike Pichai
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Mike Pichai writes about tech, technolgies, AI and work life, creating clear stories for clients in Seattle, Indianapolis, Portland, San Diego, Tampa, Austin, Los Angeles and Charlotte. He writes blogs readers can trust.
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How Development Workflows Affect App Quality?
I first noticed it during a morning standup that felt heavier than usual. Nothing dramatic had happened. No outages. No angry messages. Still, the way people spoke had changed. Updates sounded cautious. Explanations ran longer than necessary. Small decisions were being deferred instead of made.
By Mike Pichai20 days ago in Lifehack
How Backend Architecture Supports Modern Mobile Apps?
It started with a message that arrived twice. I was sitting at a café, phone on the table, cup untouched, watching a conversation thread update itself in a way that didn’t make sense. Same message. Same timestamp. Two entries, seconds apart. I closed the app, reopened it, and one of them disappeared.
By Mike Pichai23 days ago in Education
Designing a Secure Prompt Pipeline on Mobile to Protect Sensitive Inputs
It was close to midnight when I noticed it. The office was quiet, lights dimmed, my phone resting face-up on the desk as I replayed a simple flow I’d already seen dozens of times. A user typed a prompt. The app responded. Nothing failed. Nothing looked risky. Still, I couldn’t stop thinking about how many invisible steps sat between those two moments.
By Mike Pichai24 days ago in Education
What a Strong App Strategy Looks Like for Growing Companies?
I remember the meeting clearly because nothing felt wrong at first. The numbers were good. Usage was up. New requests kept coming in. Still, as I sat there flipping through a roadmap that had been revised three times in as many months, I felt a quiet tension I couldn’t ignore. Growth was happening faster than our assumptions.
By Mike Pichai25 days ago in Futurism
When to Break Cross-Platform Rules and Go Fully Native
I remember the moment clearly because nothing dramatic happened. No crash. No heated argument. Just a quiet pause in the room. I was sitting at the table with two phones in front of me, the same screen open on both, tapping back and forth while the afternoon light softened outside the window. The app worked on each device. Still, my hands noticed something my mouth hadn’t said yet.
By Mike Pichai26 days ago in Journal
Why Mobile Apps Break When Business Logic Lives in the UI Layer?. AI-Generated.
The testing room smelled faintly of old coffee and warm electronics when the first strange behavior appeared. Morning light slipped through the blinds in narrow lines, landing across the table where two phones lay side by side. I sat quietly while a developer replayed the same flow again and again. Sometimes the screen advanced exactly as expected. Sometimes it hesitated. Sometimes a button stayed disabled for no clear reason.
By Mike Pichai27 days ago in Journal
How I Built Cache Migration Logic Without Losing What Users Remembered?. AI-Generated.
The airport café felt colder than it should have that night. Runway lights kept sliding across the glass panels, soft and rhythmic, as if the world outside was moving slower than everything inside my head. Someone behind the counter rearranged pastries no one seemed interested in buying. I sat with my laptop open, scrolling through cache entries that belonged to an app that had lost user data after an update.
By Mike Pichai30 days ago in Journal
