Top 5 sessions from last year’s Mobile DevOps Summit 2022
Last November we held our first ever Mobile DevOps Summit with over 80+ sessions across multiple content tracks: build, test, monitor, release, mobile CI/CD, culture, and collaboration. 90+ companies like eBay, Dyson, Instagram, The New York Times, Shopify, and the BBC spoke live or pre-recorded (with live Q&A sessions at the end). The event was a huge success in the Mobile industry with over 4,000+ practitioners attending the live event or watching some of the 60+ hours of mobile-first content.
This year’s Mobile DevOps Summit 2023: Accelerate Your Mobile App Success is going to be even better with a two-day virtual event on the 4th & 5th October 2023 that will see 5,000 expected registrants from around the world, 50 industry-leading speakers, 40+ informative sessions including self-guided workshops, breakout sessions, fireside chats, and panel discussions. Register now!
Day 1️ | A multi-track agenda from some of the biggest names in Mobile app development
Day 2️ | Hands-on live workshops delivered by industry experts
Stay tuned for the speaker and agenda announcement coming soon to learn from industry experts who will share their experiences, tips, and strategies for building successful Mobile DevOps teams!
Let’s jump into the top 5 sessions of the Mobile DevOps Summit 2022:
The Costs of Modularization
💜 This was a ‘most liked’ session at the Mobile DevOps Summit 2022
Modularization offers many benefits, including reducing build time, improving scalability, and easier testing; if implemented correctly. Aldo Wachyudi, Engineering Manager at Astro held a session at the 2022 Mobile DevOps Summit to speak about both the benefits and the cautionary tales associated with modularization.
In the session, he shares the cost of implementing (or not implementing) modularization and its solutions. The goal? To ensure you’re making a more conscious decision when modularizing a project, whether migrating from a single-module to a multi-module project or starting a new multi-module project.
📣 Session host: Aldo Wachyudi, Engineering Manager at Astro
Watch the 25 minute video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZmMFaOniLk
Native Development without Double Cost
💜 This was a ‘most liked’ session at the Mobile DevOps Summit 2022
In this session, Ivo Jansch, Founder & CEO at Egeniq discusses Native vs Cross Platform development and how teams can bring practices from Cross Platform development over to Native development without doubling the cost.
While hybrid and multi platform tools are popular and have their use cases, Ivo’s talk also focusses on why a large number of apps are still developed natively. But native development for iOS and Android doesn’t mean twice the cost.
In this session Ivo shares methods to do native development efficiently using techniques such as shared architecture with the help of cross-platform frameworks and asynchronous development for projects to progress independently and concurrently. He also looks at the mobile development process as a whole to show where optimizations can be made and how to reduce redundancy and speed up development time so you can develop apps efficiently without doubling the cost.
📣 Session host: Ivo Jansch, Founder & CEO at Egeniq
Watch the 25 minute video now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ipiyJu5Wxg
Getting Started with Fastlane Swift
In this session that followed our keynote speaker, CEO & Co-Founder here at Bitrise, Barnabas Birmacher, Tim Oliver, iOS Engineer at Instagram, takes us through Fastlane Swift: The open source platform that “lets you perform automated tasks for the most common things you need to do to ship an iOS and Mac OS app”.
Tim talks about how Fastlane Swift streamlines the development process by automating commonly repetitive tasks. By using a configuration file, it specifies the workflows to automatically generate screenshots of your app, sign the binary prior to uploading, and even handle the upload to the App Store itself.
Fastlane makes it incredibly easy to automate nearly every task involving testing and publishing apps to both Apple and Android platforms. However the fact that it requires knowledge of Ruby makes it quite a daunting challenge for most Apple platform developers. Watch Tim’s session as he walks you through how to use Fastlane Swift, how to integrate it with an existing project, and how to use existing CI for more efficient app building.
📣 Session host: Tim Oliver, iOS Engineer at Instagram
Watch the 20 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi5jg_-wmig
How to Improve your Mobile Project in 1 Day – A Guide for everyone
💜 This was a ‘most liked’ session at the Mobile DevOps Summit 2022
Have you ever spent long minutes or hours configuring a project, going from person to person to find some answers?
Have you ever had a problem understanding the purpose of changes with an empty or laconic Pull Request (PR)?
Have you ever spent too much time checking the style instead of the logic in the PR description?
Have you ever corrected tests after someone forgot to check if they work before merging?
Do you think your project is carried out at the highest level, and you need someone to confirm it for you (e.g. a speaker at a conference)?
If you answered yes to any of the questions, then this talk is for you!
In this session, Dawid tells a story about one messy project and how his team improved it using several tools (to give him more time to write super functionalities and watch YouTube). During this interactive session, Dawid considers whether the README file is needed for anything or not. Then, he tells you how to make your PR more meaningful to your team and how automation can be your ally in tedious processes like PR validation or code writing with the slightest possible effort. Ultimately, he’s showing you how to make your project resilient to unexpected code merges.
⚡️Added bonus: He also prepared a universal list of tools for you (README file, PR template, Danger, Linter and more), which acts as an ideal introduction to improving the work in your project and can be used as a checklist that will allow you to assess whether your project is carried out on the highest level.
📣 Session host: Dawid Bastek, Mobile QA Engineer at Backbase
Watch the 25 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRBZ1x8x35I
How KPIs can drive your mobile CI transformation project
This session was a most-watched session at the 2022 Mobile DevOps Summit due to Jane McKay (Senior Software Engineering Manager at Dyson) talking in detail about how she managed the MyDyson app, a multi-product IoT app, with KPIs. Jane goes into detail to explain how a working group in Dyson’s mobile app team set KPIs for their CI and how these KPIs drove and are still driving great improvements.
The MyDyson app is a one-stop shop for all Dyson related products and Jane talks about competing in an industry that has one-app per product and how they manage this monster app whilst keeping it efficient. Their mission: ‘one app to control everything’.
They have a staggering 3.18m iOS users, 1.25m Android users, their app is available in 42 different markets, is translated into 39 different languages and they have 7 scrum teams across 3 global locations with 60 Engineers. They release every 4 weeks (during the video Jane talks about why they chose that cadence due to their need to connect to physical products) and create a phenomenal >750,000 test instances a day. Their app is big!
In this session, Jane talks through how they migrated to Bitrise from an in-house CI solution. Her team needed to transform their CI and opmitize the performance of their large MyDyson app so this 20 minute video takes you through exactly how they did this using KPIs.
📣 Session host: Jane McKay, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Dyson
Watch the 20 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJE_qXqWisE
This Year’s Mobile DevOps Summit 2023
Ready for even more Mobile DevOps workshops, fireside chats and sessions? Take a sneak peek into what’s coming in this years Mobile DevOps Summit 2023:
- DevEx: Learn about the latest trends, tools, and techniques for developing high-quality mobile apps and enhancing developer productivity and experience.
- Mobile CI/CD: Discover how to automate your app development pipeline to speed up your time to market and improve the quality of your code.
- Test Automation: Learn how to automate your mobile app testing process to reduce errors and improve efficiency.
- Mobile DevOps at Scale: Explore the intersection of DevOps and mobile app development, and learn how to implement DevOps best practices to build scalable and reliable mobile apps.
- Security: Understand the unique security challenges of mobile apps and how to implement effective security measures like DevSecOps to protect your apps and users.
- Analytics: Learn how to leverage mobile analytics to gain insights into your app usage and user behavior, and use that information to improve your app’s performance and ROI.
- UX: Discover the latest trends and techniques in mobile UX, and learn how to create engaging and intuitive mobile app experiences.
- Performance Optimization: Learn how to optimize your app’s performance to ensure it runs smoothly and efficiently on all devices.
- Infrastructure & Architecture: Understand the latest trends in mobile architecture patterns, designing for scalability, and building robust microservices architecture for mobile apps.
- AIOps: Explore ways in which AIOps enables Mobile DevOps teams to quickly identify and address issues affecting application performance and user experience, to enhance monitoring, error detection, and process efficiency.
Don’t miss out on the biggest Mobile DevOps summit of the year. Register now!