Mobile DevOps Pipeline with Donovan Brown
How do you manage the building, monitoring and maintenance of mobile apps? Carl and Richard talk to Donovan Brown about how all the pieces have come together in the Microsoft stack to make creating, testing, deploying, maintaining and monitoring of mobile apps better. Donovan talks about all the good stuff from Build in mobile, including Xamarin being part of the toolset, but also tools like HockeyApp and Release Management. While Microsoft provides a ton of tools, you can bring your own as well - everything is optional and changeable. Ultimately, it's the synthesis of all the parts into a whole that provides the greater value. Check it out!
Guests:
Donovan Brown
Donovan is a Principal Program Manager for DevOps in the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on developer tools including Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. Before joining Microsoft, Donovan spent seven years as a Process Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master. Donovan has traveled the globe helping companies in the U.S., Canada, India, Germany, and the UK develop solutions using agile practices in industries including Communications, Health Care, Energy, and Financial Services. Donovan is an avid programmer, often finding ways to integrate software into his other hobbies and activities.
Links:
- URL Shorteners https://boingboing.net/2016/04/13/url-shorteners-are-a-short-pat.html
- Donovan's Blog http://www.donovanbrown.com/
- HockeyApp http://hockeyapp.net/features/
- Xamarin https://www.xamarin.com/
- Xamarin Test Cloud https://www.xamarin.com/test-cloud
- Perfecto Mobile https://www.perfectomobile.com/
- Maven https://maven.apache.org/run-maven/
- Mac in Cloud http://www.macincloud.com/
- WebDeploy http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/web-deploy
- Chef https://www.chef.io/
- Puppet https://puppet.com/
- Release Management https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/release-management-vs.aspx