Dev Log — Bhargav Vadgama https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog Field notes on Android, Kotlin, ML pipelines and developer tooling. en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:58:18 GMT Jetpack Compose Performance: What Actually Moves the Needle https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/jetpack-compose-performance https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/jetpack-compose-performance Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Recomposition counts are a vanity metric. Here is what I actually measure before shipping a Compose screen to millions of users — and the three fixes that made the biggest difference in production. Android Compose Performance Kotlin Flows in Production: Patterns I Keep, Patterns I Dropped https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/kotlin-flows-in-production https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/kotlin-flows-in-production Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT After 1.5 years of shipping Flow-based Android apps, some patterns survived contact with production and some quietly caused the worst bugs of my career. A field report. Kotlin Coroutines Architecture From Android Dev to ML Pipelines: What My M.Sc. Taught Me the Hard Way https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/ml-pipeline-lessons-hnu https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/ml-pipeline-lessons-hnu Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Moving from mobile engineering to AI & Data Analytics at HNU exposed every gap in my mental model. The biggest surprise: the ML part is the easy 20%. AI/ML Data Analytics Career Why I Ship CLI Tools for Everything (and How Kite ASO Was Born) https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/cli-tools-developer-experience https://bhargavvadgama.vercel.app/blog/cli-tools-developer-experience Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT GUI tools optimize for the first five minutes; CLI tools optimize for the next five years. The reasoning behind building Kite ASO as a keyboard-first terminal app. CLI Open Source Tooling