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

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