Android developers, heads up! The future of Android applications architecture is here and you better embrace it now, or else be forgotten by the history! Hmm, to be honest, this reads a bit more bombastic than I intended, but I think I’ll leave it like that for now. You can decide for yourself if such an excitement on my part was justified after you read this post.
So, what’s all this about? Well, I watched a talk by Netflix’s Juliano Moraes from the latest Droidcon NYC and found it amazing. In this talk, Juliano showed Netflix Android application’s architecture and explained how it supports their large-scale AB testing strategy.
See, it’s usually impossible to draw a straight connection between software architecture and business advantage (and it’s not that nobody tried), but seems like it’s what happened at Netflix. AB testing allows you to find the best implementation for a feature (in terms of real business KPIs) out of set of potential solutions, and, as such, it’s a high-impact business value multiplier. Netflix folks can quickly explain how their architecture enables simple and safe AB testing, which means that it’s a thing.
So, let’s discuss this architecture in details and see what can we learn from Netflix.
