Videos: CocoaHeads meetup at Badoo office

On Friday, May 19, CocoaHeads-mitap for iOS developers was held in our Moscow office. Diverse in content: two presentations by speakers, a quiz on knowledge testing and a panel discussion with experts from well-known IT companies on the market. Video report - under the cut!

Speakers

Katerina Trofimenko, Badoo

Topic: Development of features: from flags to a / b-tests

Katya told us what feature flags are, how they help us in Badoo to develop large features iteratively, by several developers, and not to worry about the code going into releases. She told about how the targeted layout of features has grown into a / b-testing system and how it all looks from the side of the iOS client

Alexander Zimin, iOS developer

Theme: Swift Magic

Sasha spoke about non-standard language features for real projects. About why complicate your life and what advantages it can give.

• Protocol-Oriented Programming and its dilemmas
• When and why use generalizations and nested types
• Swift present and future

Quiz

CocoaHeads for the first time publish the traditional quiz, which is held for the sixth time. We gave the winners cool prizes: Lego-set and Malin from Ampereka - to make it even more interesting to play.

Round table

We invited some of the most active guys in the iOS community to ask how large IT companies conduct interviews, luring programmers how to build DevPR.

Topic: iOS development in large companies

Leading the discussion: Alexander Zimin

Guests of the round table:

Yandex: Roman Busygin, Lead Developer

Avito: Yegor Tolstoy, Head of Mobile Engineering

Rambler Digital Solutions: Sergey Krapivensky, Development Team Leader

RedMadRobot: Grigori Matvievich, Technical Lead

Badoo: Katerina Trofimenko, iOS developer

Traditionally, you can find a photo report in our group on Facebook . And see all the videos in the playlist - here .