7: How We Build Large-Scale Mobile Apps Part I

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Ramon and Passy work on the official Twitter for iOS and Twitter for Android apps respectively. After a rather long break, they're back and discuss the workflow that's used at Twitter to bring you those apps.

Topics

• Ansible for server provisioning.
• Scaleway cloud hosting.
• PureScript.
• FFI Chapter in "PureScript by Example" by Phil Freeman.

Workflow For Large-Scale Mobile Applications

• No, we won't link to Jira here. Or Basecamp. Or Pivotal Tracker. Sorry.
• Gerrit for code review.
• OWNERS approval plugin for Gerrit. Yes, this stuff is actually written in Prolog.
• Crashlytics Beta for dogfooding.
• Jenkins for CI.

Picks

• Ramon: YakYak Open Source Google Hangouts desktop client.
• Passy + Ramon: Mr Robot Season 2
• Ramon: No Man's Sky by Hello Games
• Passy: Episode 189 and Episode 225 of JavaScript Jabber with Phil Freeman and John De Goes.
• Passy: Dell XPS 13 9530 Developer Edition

About

• Ramón Argüello on Twitter
• Pascal Hartig on Twitter
• Strictly Untyped on Twitter

Music

• Outro jingle - Ramón Argüello