Developing Mobile Apps at Scale: 20 Rules for Large Engineering Orgs and Startups

Recently, without any specific reason, I was asked how to build an app or a software system at scale. My initial response was to suggest using lambdas and autoscaling groups to accommodate the exponential growth of customers. However, I soon realized that the question was about building a system for large organizations, where hundreds of engineers work together in cohesion without interfering with each other’s work. Having worked in a small startup for the past few years, I almost forgot about this challenge. It was…