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Mobile DevOps Playbook

By : Moataz Nabil
Book Image

Mobile DevOps Playbook

By: Moataz Nabil

Overview of this book

To build mobile apps, you need to understand mobile-first features, tools, and processes that help you build, test, and release robust apps faster and more efficiently. The multitude of challenges stemming from mobile development's inherent complexities, including native iOS and Android app creation, cross-platform frameworks, and the implementation of scalable architectures within extensive teams, collectively contribute to a substantial number of obstacles that can significantly prolong the release process. This book will help you understand and implement the best practices of mobile DevOps for continuous integration, testing, delivery, deployment, and monitoring. You’ll explore different challenges faced by developers due to varied OSs, the unforgiving nature of mobile applications, and continuous updates to mobile phones and learn how to maneuver through these challenges. You’ll also get to grips with the latest trends while discovering the potential future of mobile DevOps, with valuable insights and guidance about integrating mobile development teams into your organization. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to successfully implement mobile DevOps and build fast, qualitative, and efficient mobile apps for your team or organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: Introduction to Mobile DevOps
5
Part 2: Implementing the Mobile DevOps Environment
9
Part 3: Monitoring, Optimizing, and Securing Mobile DevOps
13
Part 4: Moving Beyond Mobile DevOps and the Future of DevOps

Establishing Mobile App Monitoring, Observability, and Analytics

In the previous chapter, we learned how to successfully release mobile apps to the relevant app stores. However, this is not the last stage in the CI/CD process. The next stage is to continuously support our customers and trace app usage, performance, crashes, and more. This is where monitoring observability, and analytics for mobile apps, come into play. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • What is monitoring?
  • What is observability?
  • The benefits of implementing monitoring and observability for mobile apps
  • The differences between monitoring and observability
  • What is analytics?
  • Factors to consider in monitoring and observability
  • Steps to implement monitoring and observability for mobile apps
  • Monitoring, observability, and analytics tools for mobile apps
  • Key metrics for mobile app monitoring, analytics, and observability
  • Implementing continuous monitoring for mobile apps...