Building Mobile Apps at Scale
Learning and science
technical book
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How HN took it
13 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Execution: 2 for, 3 againstIdea: 5 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Well-made, relatable and practical content
From 3 comments
Having read the book cover to cover I can say that it is quite a well made, relatable list of challenges and how they are being resolved in the sector. Foreseeing these types of…
htkibar on HNReally great book and it captures the challenges perfectly!
franzbusch on HNcongrats on publishing! it was SUCH a good read and incredible quality. Absolutely recommend that everyone get it before the free period runs out, and then buy the full edition…
swyx on HN
Captures the challenges of mobile at scale well
From 2 comments
Really great book and it captures the challenges perfectly!
franzbusch on HNCongratulations on publishing! And on a unique topic at that. I’ve built, and than managed teams building, apps of large scale and complexity. Your outline looks like a goldmine…
mik3y on HN
Useful follow-up material and references
From 1 comment
Having read the book cover to cover I can say that it is quite a well made, relatable list of challenges and how they are being resolved in the sector. Foreseeing these types of…
htkibar on HN
Objections
Download via Gumroad failed for some buyers
From 4 comments
Looks like a great book but was unable to download. Tried with more than one emails. Edit: Looks like they programmed it to work only with Gmail and probably other mainstream…
dallamaneni on HNRan into same issue. What worked was the first email that gives you a link to gumroad. After using the coupon and providing an email to gumroad, it showed me the confirmation…
frfl on HNstill having issues. got a second email in gmail that appears to be a copy of the first email. the pain never ends.
johnthescott on HNSame issue for me. Just emailed you. Thx
ddoran on HN
Typos in the book and website
From 3 comments
Typo in 3.20 - "Avoding"
bionhoward on HNOne more in the first section of the table of contents: "CI/CD & The Moible Build Train"
mementomorti on HNTypo: it should be 19. PART 3: LARGE TEAMS 13. Planning and Decision Making
san_dimitri on HN
Paperback pricing and Growing as a Mobile Engineer omitted from print edition
From 1 comment
It's interesting that the paper version doesn't include "Growing as a Mobile Engineer" - too much paper and/or logistical issue? Trying to decide which way to support you,…
mobiledev2014 on HN
Requests
Coverage of coordinators and feature flag best practices
From 1 comment
The book sounds really interesting! I hope it will discuss feature flags best practices and things like coordinators
wdb on HN
A similar book on scaling web applications
From 1 comment
Wow thanks. Is there any good book like this that is talking about the scaling of web application?
namaljayathunga on HN
Include Growing as a Mobile Engineer in the paperback
From 1 comment
It's interesting that the paper version doesn't include "Growing as a Mobile Engineer" - too much paper and/or logistical issue? Trying to decide which way to support you,…
mobiledev2014 on HN
Questions
Recommended tools for manual test plan management
From 1 comment
Thanks for the great work on collecting this material. There are many gems here! Chapter 18. speaks about "Manual Testing". Do you have any references on how to manage test…
hrpnk on HN
Whether mobile apps are becoming obsolete versus web apps
From 2 comments
I'm thinking mobile apps are a thing of the past. But writing a book is a hell of a job. I did it once, it was hard, as hell and the everybody pirated it.
smoochy on HN> I'm thinking mobile apps are a thing of the past. Do you think this is the future or actually happening right now? Because as an iOS developer I've seen zero reduction in work…
wingerlang on HN
Alternatives named
Crashlytics (similar to Bugsnag)
From 1 comment
AFAIk they are not competitors. Linear is akin to Jira/Trello. Bugsnag is akin to Crashlytics.
RPeres on HN
Jira and Trello (similar to Linear)
From 1 comment
AFAIk they are not competitors. Linear is akin to Jira/Trello. Bugsnag is akin to Crashlytics.
RPeres on HN
Zephyr, Xray, TestRail for test management
From 1 comment
Zephyr, Xray, TestRail are commonly used, but all of these feel clunky. Azure DevOps has some tools that looks promising, but I have no experience using these.…
hrpnk on HN