Rohin Tak - Mobile DevOps

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Rohin Tak is a mobile and web development enthusiast with expertise in and several years of experience of .NET technologies.

Professionally, Rohin has worked for IBM and OnMobile Global as a .NET developer and Xamarin developer respectively. Rohin is now working as a senior software engineer at LeadSquared, one of the fastest growing sales and marketing automation solutions in India.

In his spare time, Rohin is mostly found trekking in the Himalayas and exploring new places around the globe.

Jhalak Modi is a DevOps engineer with a deep interest and expertise in implementing large-scale cloud, big data, CI/CD, and automation solutions on a variety of public/private/hybrid clouds, as well as on-premises. She is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and DevOps professional with more than 10 certifications in trending technologies.

She is also a public speaker at AWS events, universities, meet-ups, and corporate trainings. Currently, working with KOGENTiX, Singapore, she has previously worked with Wipro Technologies and Electromech Corporation.

Daniel Oh is a DevOps evangelist at Red Hat and specializes in evangelism of Microservices, Containers, Agile, DevOps, and cloud-native based multiple open source projects. He's presented lots of technical seminars and hands-on workshops in his specialty areas for developers, IT Ops, InfoSec, and C-Suites at global events such as ApacheCon, Red Hat Summit, Mucon, and Open Source Summit, as a trusted adviser of their own digital transformation journey.

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Mobile DevOps is the future of continuous integration and continuous delivery for mobile application development, and is a very important requirement of today's fast-paced development culture. While DevOps has been implemented and adopted by most fast-growing development teams today, mobile DevOps is yet to be used by the majority of the mobile development world. It is something that can improve integration and delivery, as well as provide a greater feedback mechanism and early defect capturing tools.

Mobile DevOps comes with its own implementation challenges, and with various mobile platforms out there on millions of devices and with different aspect ratios, it is only becoming more important to use tools that streamline testing on physical devices and delivery to customers while providing a quick feedback mechanism to developers.

In this book, we'll be using Xamarin to explore mobile application development fundamentals and tools. Xamarin is a cross-platform mobile application development framework from Microsoft that can be used to create iOS, Android, and Windows apps using a shareable code base and design. Apart from Xamarin, we'll be using other tools from Microsoft's tool belt, such as Xamarin Test Cloud and Visual Studios Team Services, to dive deep into the different phases of mobile DevOps.