Alex gives an overview of unit-testing mocks, stubs, and fakes and explains what is the difference between them.

Alex talks about working at Uber and what he's learned from their RIB architecture.

Alex & Andrew respond to a listener question about starting a career in software engineering. How to choose between a coding bootcamp and university? What should one learn to be a marketable software engineer? What's the best way to learn? What's the market like for mobile software engineers? And more!

Alex has a change of mind on singletons after previously declaring them "evil". Also, what's new in 2019 and what we have planned.

Andrew talks about his recent design struggle with trying to work both within and maintaining a Model-View-Presenter architecture in the context of pre-existing code.

Alex answers a question from a listener that just completed an iOS Engineer interview: How does one design an app for scalability?

Andrew describes & discusses the various problems with view controllers.

Andrew talks about the recent architectural refactoring work he did at Reddit. He explains how the iOS team moved from an MVC architecture to a Model View Presenter (MVP) architecture. He also talks about Texture -- an async layout framework for fast scrolling feeds.

This episode was originally recorded March 2018.

We answer a listeners questions. What is the threat/benefit of React Native? What's happening to the job market because of React Native? How do you stay immune to the cultish force of the Javascript religion? What effect will WebAssembly have on web development?

Ray Wenderlich authors Kelvin Lau & Vincent Ngo come on the show to discuss their book "Data Structures and Algorithms in Swift".