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October 30, 2015
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Tales of a rewrite

The story of Lyft rewriting our app from scratch in Swift.

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Keith Smiley

October 30, 2015

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Transcript

  1. TALES OF A REWRITE

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  3. WHY REWRITE?

  4. LET'S REFACTOR INSTEAD

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  6. RETHINK THE PROBLEM

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  8. STARTING THE REWRITE

  9. TECHNICAL CHALLENGES

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  12. SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT NIL

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  20. RAMPING UP

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  23. EASING IN THE TEAM

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  25. SHIP IT

  26. NEW CODEBASE, NEW RULES

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  28. SWIFTLINT

  29. GITIQUETTE

  30. !!

  31. WHAT COULD HAVE GONE BETTER?

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  36. WAS IT WORTH IT?

  37. QUESTIONS