iOS at Facebook [pdf]

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Post by GarethX » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 9:29 AM UTC

iOS at Facebook [pdf]
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Re: iOS at Facebook [pdf]

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Post by spydum » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 12:41 PM UTC

So, FB app is bloated because they choose to be sloppy is what I read. Wonder how sustainable this is over the long term?

Re: iOS at Facebook [pdf]

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Post by randomsearch » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 12:58 PM UTC

This is truly a superb read. Don't just read the comments!

Re: iOS at Facebook [pdf]

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Post by phn » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

spydum wrote: post #2

So, FB app is bloated because they choose to be sloppy is what I read. Wonder how sustainable this is over the long term?

Sloppy?! Those guys have needs the majority of us will never need to deal with. Did you read the presentation?

If anything they're the opposite of sloppy.

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Post by applecore » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

spydum wrote: post #2

So, FB app is bloated because they choose to be sloppy is what I read. Wonder how sustainable this is over the long term?

This strategy was hugely successful for Microsoft since the early days of Windows NT 3.1: “What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.”

The performance advancements on the hardware side of the platform are almost entirely consumed by the ever-increasing complexity of the most popular app on the software side.

Re: iOS at Facebook [pdf]

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Post by m4tthumphrey » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

This was an awesome read. Thanks Simon!

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Post by shyber » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:32 PM UTC

FYI when Sun owned the FB HQ building the address was 1 Network Drive :)

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Post by joeblau » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:32 PM UTC

It seems like with such a strong engineering team, Facebook should have really built their own phone. It's impressive that they re-wrote a lot of the major components the iOS development process and optimized them for their scale. I think a Facebook style development platform on it's own hardware would be an interesting contrast to Google's and Apple's solutions. One challenge with learning this type of development stack is that you're almost not even learning traditional iOS development so your skills aren't truly transferrable.

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Post by JamesBaxter » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:34 PM UTC

Very interesting, even as a fan of native apps I can see the thought process behind doing it web based when you have to build so many tools for each platform.

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Post by paulojreis » Fri, Sep 25, 2015, 1:39 PM UTC

spydum wrote: post #2

So, FB app is bloated because they choose to be sloppy is what I read. Wonder how sustainable this is over the long term?

It's not sustainable.

But since software developers have been dealt a good hand (demand-wise) in these decades, we get away with it. And call it "hacker culture", so it sounds hip and even correct.