Mobile @ Scale 2013
who it's for
mobile engineers, engineering managers, iOS developers, Android developers, mobile backend engineers, release engineers, mobile QA engineers
topics
continuous delivery for mobile; server-driven JSON screens; feature flags and trunk-based development; realtime crash reporting and symbolication; shared C++ sync library; Android UI performance optimizations; image caching and server resizing; Buck fast build system; snapshot UI testing; device lab and public beta programs; offline and low-bandwidth handling
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to Mobile @ Scale | Cory Ondrejka | 10m |
Argues that mobile adoption accelerates faster than past platforms and that Facebook’s mobile changes doubled daily use (July 2012–July 2013), driven by faster… | ||
| Mobile: Past, Present, Future - Tech Choices and Architecture Impact | Kiran Prasad | 46m |
LinkedIn moves from Rails to Node then to Tornado/Play, replaces resource APIs with screen-based JSON and server-controlled sorting, and adds Kafka and push… | ||
| Lessons from Mobile | Jocelyn Goldfein | 43m |
Facebook reports over a billion users and ~800 million on mobile, and measures show its apps eat ~20% of users’ mobile time. Engineering uses a four-week train… | ||
| Scaling Mobile Development | Jeremy Gordon | 46m |
Twitter shifts from a few mobile engineers to full stack permanent teams, trains hundreds through Twitter University, and buys Crashlytics for realtime crash… | ||
| iOS Infrastructure | Alan Cannistraro | 46m |
Facebook iOS work is built as layered libraries and independent modules register URLs so Newsfeed, Timeline and Messaging navigate via URL routing; code lives… | ||
| Designing the Pinterest Mobile Apps | Carl Rice, Naveen Gavini | 48m |
Pinterest migrates the grid to mobile with concrete tactics: precompute cell rectangles and cached heights, use a fixed‑width flexible‑height masonry layout on… | ||
| Building Mobile Apps with Open Source Tools | Simon Mavi Stewart | 46m |
Facebook describes the actual tooling and numbers: code lands via git with code review in Fabricator, CI on Buildbot, ~15 APK variants, ~1M beta and ~20k daily… | ||
| Building for Cross Platform Apps | Stephen Poletto, Sean Beausoleil | 44m |
Dropbox moves core sync logic into a shared C++ library (live Dropbox / Li mailbox) that runs on iOS and Android, replacing duplicate Java/Objective‑C… | ||
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