Tools of the Trade
summary
History of the Uber Android app becomes a set of concrete fixes: moving to a mono repo per platform to update many modules in one commit, adopting Buck for parallel cached builds across 1,000+ modules, shipping OKBuck to auto-generate Buck scripts, and running a submit queue to keep master green. RIBs modularize business logic with plug-in metadata via Chrome and Workflows for deep links. EXO speeds device iteration, Artist + lint + Herald enforce UI consistency, and Error‑Prone plus Rave catch runtime and annotation errors.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Tools of the Trade Ty Smith
- 4:26MONO
- 13:0799.99% reliability of core flows Enable global rollback of core flows to a guaranteed working state
- 13:39Rails for Design and Code Guidelines for both architecture and design
- 13:52Monitoring is a First-Class Citizen Syx Automatic analytics, logging, debugging, and tracing
- 14:05De-risk Experimentation Application framework with plugin API
- 14:28Make Magic Performance second to none, graceful degradation on low-end devices and networks
- 19:18Crumb An annotation processor for breadcrumbing metadata across compilation boundaries
- 22:44Workflow Represent a workflow of reactive steps
- 31:42RAVE Runtime Annotation Validation Engine Ensure models adhere to the set of expectations that are described by their annotations
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