bitdriftOver 10 years at Uber, Phil Rabin watched the mobile app grow into a codebase adding ~1MB of compiled code per week – putting the team weeks away from App Store download limits. That's when they realized no refactoring would save an architecture that couldn't scale. Today at SoFi, Phil runs one of the world's largest Flutter apps and is hitting familiar walls.
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beyond the noise - More Code, More Problems: Keeping Mobile Apps Fast, Small, and Reliable with Phil Rabin
Phil Rabin, Engineering Director at SoFi, joins Matt Klein to discuss the evolution from early web development to modern mobile engineering, sharing insights from building at scale at Uber and SoFi.