from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

What does the future of mobile engineering look like? What engineering practices will it take to keep "winning" in mobile? Been thinking about this for a *long* time. An thread: 1. The biggest problem mobile teams have: shipping with confidence. Why? Because it takes. So. Long. t.co/3ZX5SFIGtS

2. What is the approach that decent teams/companies use today? 1. Detect problems in prod via monitoring 2. Identify regressions with alerting 3. Resolve as realtime as possible: probably with feature flags 4. Limit the blast radius via staged rollouts t.co/4YZr0s1yn0

4. The biggest problem in mobile is detecting problems in prod is *really* late. For issues behind feature flags, this works. But for non-functional issues like performance, binary size etc, detecting is often done ad-hoc, and fixes take for a long time. t.co/5tkTmqTlAm

5. This is where most teams are today (the ones that invest in mobile quality). Where the industry is heading - and some companies already building custom tooling - is the shifting left on all these quality checks: getting feedback before merging to main. t.co/AHjToXnhes

6. So where are we today? There are little to no tools to "shift left" on mobile quality. Save for a few, massive companies, building this for themselves. Uber was one of these companies. This is why I joined @mobile__dev. Our mission is to set a new standard for mobile dev. t.co/wCWxxI61CA

7. The team is insanely talented: @LelandTakamine headed up mobile platform efforts at Uber, @jkrups comes from Google, and we have incredible hires coming on. Read more about our vision of the industry, the future, and how at @mobile__dev we shape it: t.co/6VdsRVY2Zy

8. Finally, a confession. I *always* felt the industry follows Apple and Google, waiting for solutions from them. I miss the boldness of building great dev tools ourselves. This is why I joined @mobile__dev. To jump ahead, not just follow. To build the tools we should have had.

9. We're hiring people who want to build world-class tooling with an incredible crew. A recent hire shared why they're leaving Big Tech to join: "I can always go back - especially after I built the tools all Big Tech and startups will use." More details: t.co/b7v9COe4o3

10. On hiring: yes, we hire globally, remote. Yes, we issue equity - those joining now would do incredibly well if the company does as well as we hope it will. (Besides, any startup not issuing equity is no startup in my book: t.co/WxQ9pQh2mY) DMs open!