The evolution of Facebook’s iOS app architecture
Engineering at Meta
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
Objects in Core Data are mutable, and that did not lend itself well to News Feed’s multithreaded architecture. To make matters worse, News Feed utilized bidirectional data flow, stemming from its use of Apple’s de facto design pattern for Cocoa apps: Model View Controller. And that presented its own set of unique challenges.
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