DoorDash Md Al Mamun and Michael Thole

How DoorDash uses XcodeGen to eliminate project merge conflicts

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Md Al Mamun and Michael Thole from DoorDash reveal how their 100+ engineer iOS team eliminated project merge conflicts entirely. The secret? A command-line tool that turns hours of painful XML debugging into seconds.

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