LinkedIn’s Rocket Data lets developers speed up data-heavy apps

LinkedIn is changing the iOS app development process forever with Rocket Data, a caching service that works with any database. Rocket Data came about while LinkedIn was rewriting its own mobile app. It wanted a caching system that would present information to the end user (you) while pulling in more information from the network. Core Data is Apple’s solution for managed data, which offers caching to a degree (and used by tons of iOS applications), but LinkedIn wasn’t fond of it when it tried Core Data in other applications. Specifically, LinkedIn says Core Data blocks rendering and causes dropped frames. It’s…
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