Mobile @Scale 2023
as the organisers put it
Mobile @Scale is an invitation-only technical conference for engineers building mobile software and services that serve millions or even billions of people. Register today and check back for upcoming speaker and agenda announcements!
who it's for
mobile engineers, android developers, ios developers, platform engineers, engineering managers, frontend engineers, developer experience engineers
topics
Kotlin migration and Kosabi ABI jars; Buck build system optimizations; K2 compiler and Kotlin tooling; iOS modular linking and fast links; Jetpack Compose at scale; React Native architecture and delivery; SQLite-backed messaging platform with CQL; mobile experimentation and weighted rendezvous hashing; design tokens and multi-platform codegen; generative AI integration on mobile (Llama 2 examples); Threads reuse and cross-platform engineering
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Remarks | Prashant Ratanchandani | 06m |
Conference opens with a concise roadmap: mobile shifted from a web rush to optimizing for fragmented devices, now centering on speed, reliability and craft… | ||
| Keynote: Generative AI in Mobile Applications | Mohsen Agsen | 22m |
Meta releases Llama 2 and a code generation model and shows real product integrations: image and sticker generation from text, an AI assistant that searches… | ||
| Messaging @Scale | Akshay Patel | 16m |
Platform balances agility versus efficiency by turning messaging into an ecosystem rather than a simple service: Msys uses SQLite-backed relational tables… | ||
| Improving Instagram iOs Build Speeds | Nate Stedman | 18m |
Instagram cuts incremental iOS build/link times by restructuring the monorepo: move shared code into xplat and fbbc frameworks, extract a core infra framework… | ||
| Kotlin | Lisa Watkins | 23m |
Instagram shifts from ~20% to 63% Kotlin lines of code and surpasses 50% in early 2023, while using Buck as the build system and R8 for release optimization… | ||
| Making Threads for iOS | Cameron Roth | 17m |
Built on top of the Instagram codebase and shipped in 150 days, Threads for iOS reuses core views, uses IGListKit for feeds and Buck for builds, and moves most… | ||
| Making Threads for Android | Richard Zadorozny | 22m |
Built Threads for Android from Instagram reuse in five months using Jetpack Compose, reaching 50 million installs on Android and matching iOS feature parity… | ||
| React Native Panel & Q&A | Nicola Corti, Mustafa Ali, Alfonso Curbelo, Kevin Gozali, Khalef Hosany | 42m |
Four large companies report concrete wins and pains running React Native at scale: Shopify migrates all main apps since 2020, Microsoft embeds RN into Windows… | ||
| Mobile Experimentation | Ben Bader | 24m |
Instacart runs roulette, an assignment engine serving tens of thousands of experiments to millions of devices with billions of daily assignments, using… | ||
| Design Systems @Scale | Aaron Coplan | 21m |
Meta runs 20+ independent design systems and builds a shared Design Systems Platform that stores W3C‑draft JSON design tokens, runs codegen jobs to iOS… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Parisa Zare | 01m |
Day summarizes sessions that spotlight concrete advances: mobile as the primary digital interaction, specific pushes in Mobile architecture trends, hands-on… | ||
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