As I blogged about recently, I had the pleasure of writing a series of guest posts for Microsoft's Mobile Center blog about mobile DevOps and our experiences at Olo. I'm happy to share that part two is now available, and the third will be out soon. Enjoy! A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part II: Automation…

I recently had the pleasure to write a series of guest posts for the Microsoft's Mobile Center blog about mobile DevOps, and our experiences over the years at Olo. I'm happy to say that part one of the series is now out, with parts two and three coming soon. Enjoy! A Mobile DevOps Retrospective Part I: 150+ Apps Later…

One of my favorite things about Mobile Center is that everything it can do is exposed via their REST API, meaning that if the default experience doesn't fit the workflow you're going for, you can compose things yourself in any way you see fit. They were also nice enough to expose a Swagger definition as well, making it easy to explore. The API is easy to use, but one of the other nice things about Swagger…

If you're building a mobile app, there's a lot of things you need to set up. How do you build and distribute your app? How do you authenticate your users? Do you have some sort of backend set up to store your data? How are you monitoring errors and usage? The list goes on and on. Microsoft has a lot of different offerings targeting these very needs. There's Xamarin Insights for crash reporting and monitoring, Test…