My colleague and I were chatting about data problems when he mentioned something called the coin flip.
We were talking about what happens to apps when the data gets big - the kind of big where your loading spinner stops spinning and just... stays. And then he asked me something I did not have an answer to:
"Have you ever thought about the coin flip approach?"
I had not. But I could not stop thinking about it after. So I did what any developer does when an idea refuses to leave their head - I decided to write about it.
But before we get to the coin flip, let me tell you a story. A very relatable, very painful story that most developers have lived through at least once.
