Platform

This article originally posted on Medium. Archived here to maintain open access. Trade Me engineering is a medium size team — about 200 engineers — spread across predominantly platform and stream-aligned agile squads. About 80 per cent of our active development and user sessions are across the four major monolithic platforms, i.e. iOS and Android apps, Front-end App, and API. While monolithic applications come with their baggage, they have worked well for us. Over the years, these platforms secured significant investments and underwent a few evolutions to respond to our developers’ and customers’ needs. To put it in perspective, they handle about 24 million weekly sessions. ...