Weekly Digest #74

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Stabilize, Modularize, Modernize: Scaling Slack’s Mobile Codebases

Modularization: breaking apart our app target into smaller components to reduce interdependencies, decrease build times, and allow independent development

• Improve build times
• Allowing developers to build and test their code on smaller targets
• Improving the overall structure of our codebase through clearer separation of responsibilities and disentangling dependencies
• Making it easier for our developers to work independently from one another

Modernization: adopting more forward-looking technologies and design patterns, to keep us compatible with industry trends and prepare for other technologies we might be interested in using in future

Netflix: Lessons in Experimentation

1. Experimentation Works in the Real World as Well as Software
2. Experimentation Is Great for Business Models
3. Personalization Is a Great Canvas for Experimentation
4. People Outside Can Help
5. Build a Platform
6. Choose the Right North Star Metric for Experiments
7. Model Bounds are Worthy Experiments