The mobile app for Facebook, much like its desktop counterpart, is constantly seeing tweaks and revisions, but when the team switched from custom to native development on iOS and Android, they lost the ability to A/B test their releases. In the latest post on the Facebook Engineering Blog , Ari Grant and Kang Zhang detail the complex system they built to take the place of their previous method.
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Facebook uses you as its guinea pig for testing mobile app updates