Neo's Adventure: Leveling Up with Server-Driven UIs

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Neo replaces a brittle client-heavy onboarding with a server-driven UI stack that moves from 2 products (2019) to 7 products then to 18 products by centralizing data and ownership, using Kotlin multiplatform + Ktor and JSON serialization and rendering via Jetpack Compose mappings. Two API contracts handle kickoff and step progression, app releases drop from days to ~30 minutes, one developer can tune cross‑platform flows, and engineering tackles latency, caching, monitoring and substantial developer retraining.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Neo's journey
2. 1:00Phase one: Simple Sam
3. 3:30Phase two: Grotesque George
4. 9:01Phase three: Smart Sally
5. 13:12Phase four: Bulletproof Betty
6. 16:49Basics of server-driven UI
7. 23:13Implementation examples
8. 25:41Why not React Native
9. 28:13Challenges of SDUI
10. 31:00Team impacts and agility
11. 33:46Future vision and closing
12. 34:07Q&A session

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