The Art of Scaling Mobile Apps - Tips, Tricks and Strategies learned on App with 20M+ Downloads

Submitted Aug 10, 2016

Section: Full talk (40 minutes) Technical level: Advanced

GO-JEK is Indonesia’s largest startup, growing 900X in the 18 months since launch. GO-JEK’s platform powers the Indonesian equivalents of Ola, PayTM, Swiggy, Grophers, Zomato, Dunzo and UrbanClap - all using a SINGLE app, and at comparable scale. GO-FOOD alone already does more daily orders than all Indian food tech startups combined.

GO-JEK challenges are unique, some of them are -

Parallel development on diverse set of products
50+ mobile developers
Keeping the Architecture consistent
Maintaining the quality, stability, security, UX etc.
People, people, people

The talk will focus on tips & tricks learned scaling up Go-JEK 900x, and unique strategies devised to keep up the quality, stability and continuous parallel development. We will share the tools & processes that helped us to keep moving forward, to organizing and scaling teams to streamline communication.

Outline

Mindmap Outline

The Art of Scaling Mobile Apps

About GO-JEK

20M+ downloads
12+ Products
20+ Teams (backend + frontend)
20M+ Bookings in June alone

Development Process

Agile, Scrum, Just Do It !
JIRA, Trello, Story Cards
Must tools for mobile app BA = Zeplin, Apiary, Postman, Swagger
Android/iOS Architecture using MVP, MVVM, Rx, RAC, VIPER
Code Quality - Code Conventions, Unit, Instrumentation, Activity, Functional Tests, Espresso, Appium, Cucumber, Jacoco, Coverage
Build Tools - advance tips & trick on Gradle, Fastlane, Fabric Beta, TestFlight
Realtime Monitoring - advance tips & tricks on New Relic, Crashlytics, Mixpanel, Firebase
Parallel Development - Team Branches, Builds, Deployment, Distribution, Feature Flag, Build Flags, Remote Config Flags, Percentile Rollout, Remote Kill
Jenkins, Jenkins, Jenkins …

Tools

GMail, GDocs, Evernote, Calendar, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Whatsapp, Hangouts, GoTo
Git, Git Flow, Feature branches, Team branches

Release Process

2 week release cycles
Testing
Alpha/Dog-Food releases
Final releases

Other Tips & Tricks

Realtime Feedback Channels = Crashlytics, Play+App Store Reviews+Ratings, Twitter, Facebook, Datadog, Mixpanel

Speaker bio

Amir at core is a Constant Learner, and currently VP of Mobile Engineering at GO-JEK. With over 10+ yrs of experience, most of which was spent at ThoughtWorks, he likes to code and gets excited to see it deployed to production. He has played a wide variety of role from Java/Ruby backend developer to busted Android/iOS bootstrap developer entrepreneur.

He will be co-presenting it with Salis, who is a fellow Android Developer at GO-JEK. He is very passionate about developing Android Apps and is eager to explore Android and beyond.

Slides

https://docs.google.com/a/go-jek.com/presentation/d/1RHOZipSX0dC–IjyFezig32elH49ROUqUj8M6kvq55s/edit?usp=sharing

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