This is a food delivery mobile application that helps users seamlessly order food from their favorite restaurants and track delivery on-the-go. The platform connects restaurants with the delivery staff to enable contactless delivery at customers’ doorsteps.
Challenge
This mobile app was platform-dependent, which restricted it from running in multiple operating environments. The developers had to make and ship various builds for various architectures and operating systems, which was highly cumbersome. Moreover, the app code was scattered, unstructured, and unorganized, which restricted the developers from building and deploying the app seamlessly.
Solutions
To overcome these challenges, we used AWS EC2 Mac Instances to build efficiently, package, and release the application. Also, we migrated Android builds from Linux-based Jenkins's integration tool to Mac-based Jenkins integration tool to make the app platform-independent. Moreover, we replaced SaaS service with CI/CD pipeline operations to reduce risks in each build, ensure standardization of processes, and facilitate greater agility.
Impact
By incorporating CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices, we could successfully ship the mobile app in a safer and more structured environment. The DevOps facilities helped us break silos and speed up modifications throughout automated testing and integrations. Leaner and more agile software development cycles helped us:
Minimize fragility of builds
Identify bugs/issues quickly
Spend less time maintaining scripts
On-board new functionalities faster
Maximize software quality
Improve code coverage with minimum defaults
Iterate consistently
Automate tasks and cut down on manual intervention
