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Operations have a reputation for being chunky, especially compared to GCD. However, once you get to know operations, you realise that they are the OOP approach to concurrency in iOS. Here, we look at how to use operations to build a networking layer by encapsulating multiple steps into one unit.

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This post is based on an Objective-C example. If you are more interested in seeing how to combine networking and operations based on a Swift example, head over to the more recent "Building a networking layer with operations" post. The beautiful and maddening thing about programming i