Taming Core Data and Network Realities at Slack

With thanks to Cynthia Maxwell, our January meetup will be at Slack's headquarters in San Francisco (we'll be south again next month at Google). We'll have two talks based on Slack's experiences building the Slack iOS app:

How to tame your CoreData

by Justin Rushing [Staff iOS engineer] and Jacky Wu [Staff iOS engineer]

CoreData is a wonderful, magical, powerful creature that lets you easily write a database layer in your application. But CoreData breathes fire, and when left untamed can decimate a codebase. Fear not! We can show you how to tame your CoreData in a shipping codebase.

Handling less than perfect network conditions

by Erik Hope [Staff iOS engineer]

Your users don’t always have a perfect wi-fi connection. Sometimes your API isn’t reachable. How to structure your application’s networking and persistence layers so that your apps work how your users expect even when they’re on the subway or AWS is down.