Deep Linking at Scale on iOS

> How the iOS team at Just Eat built a scalable architecture to support navigation and deep linking. Originally published on the Just Eat Engineering Blog [https://tech.just-eat.com/2019/04/16/deep-linking-at-scale-on-ios/]. In this article, we propose an architecture to implement a scalable solution to Deep Linking on iOS…

Principal Manifesto

Edit: in 2020, Will Larson published Staff Engineer, the first book that properly reasons about Staff+ roles. I cannot recommend the book, the articles, and the podcast enough. You can find all about them at staffeng.com. To extend the tech career ladder, a number of roles have been introduced…

The easiest State Machine in Swift

Here's another article of the serie "The easiest ". Previous ones on Core Data (The easiest Core Data [https://albertodebortoli.com/2016/08/05/the-easiest-core-data/]) and Future and Promises (The easiest promises in Swift [https://albertodebortoli.com/2018/02/12/the-easiest-promises-in-swift/]). It was a cold Sunday afternoon when I decided to

The template for View Controller unit testing

Hot topics like this one, testing view controllers, often come back from time to time and get some updates. It probably all started with Testing View Controllers [https://www.objc.io/issues/1-view-controllers/testing-view-controllers/] by Daniel Eggert back in 2013. Now quite out-dated as in Objective-C and showing examples of…

The easiest Promises in Swift

Here's another article of the serie "The easiest ". Previous one on Core Data here -> The easiest Core Data [https://albertodebortoli.com/2016/08/05/the-easiest-core-data/]. Swift 5 will most likely include async/await, which will be a revolution for handling concurrency at language level. See Chris Lattner's proposal here

The recipe for Singletons removal

We all went through it, am I right? You join a new company, you jump on the new codebase, you find lots of singletons, get used to them, become friend with them, but after some time you realize it's time to terminate the friendship. For a greater good. And for…

How to abstract your persistence layer on iOS with JustPersist

The original post is published on the Just Eat tech blog at this URL [http://tech.just-eat.com/2017/03/02/how-to-abstract-your-persistence-layer-and-migrate-to-another-one-on-ios-with-justpersist/] . In this blog post we introduce a solution to deal with data persistence. We developed it for the Just Eat iOS app and we call it JustPersist. It’…