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Practical guide to building and consuming published datasets that encapsulate domain concerns, enforce contracts and SLAs, and balance events, snapshots, and APIs with explicit time dimensions.

Building and consuming datasets at your company: best practices and lessons learned from SoundCloud

Automating Xcode project generation with Tuist and a Swift Project.swift manifest cuts pbxproj complexity, boosts build times, and enables modular, scalable iOS apps.

A concise exploration of how Tuist automates Xcode project generation to tame bloated project.pbxproj files, boost consistency, enable modularization, and slash build times in a large SoundCloud iOS codebase.

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Exploring the process of generating an Xcode project and its significance in code development.

A first-person account of onboarding on SoundCloud's Recommendations team, detailing practical engineering practices: standardized tech stacks, hands-on setup, a first-responder support model, and documentation-driven collaboration.

A first-hand look at SoundCloud's onboarding and engineering practices, showing how standardized stacks, hands-on tooling, and accessible documentation empower new engineers to explore, contribute across microservices, and grow.

A reflection on the author's first six months as an iOS engineer on the Recommendations team at SoundCloud.

Troubleshooting systemd with SystemTap is about ensuring reliable execution of schedules and diagnosing potential issues with the cron daemon in Linux.

Speeding up Android builds by swapping Dagger's annotation processing with Dagger Reflect via a Gradle plugin, achieving dramatic compile-time gains with minimal code changes.

Speeding Up Builds with Dagger Reflect demonstrates how SoundCloud shaved build and annotation-processing time by swapping Dagger for Dagger Reflect via the Delect Gradle plugin, enabling faster compile-time code generation with minimal production-code changes.