33 Engineering Challenges of Building Mobile Apps at Scale

by Gergely Orosz

I've been noticing how while there's a lot of appreciation for backend distributed systems challenges, there's a lot less empathy for why mobile development is hard when done at scale. Building a backend system that serves millions of parallel customers means building highly available and scalable backend systems and operating these reliably. But what about the mobile clients for these systems?

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Published January 1, 2020

About the author

I write The Pragmatic Engineer, the # technology newsletter on Substack. Author of The Software Engineer's Guidebook and other titles. Formerly at Uber, Skype / Microsoft and Skyscanner.