App Center Blog

The latest news, updates and information for mobile developers using Visual Studio App Center

Customer Spotlight | How Quora Empowers Its Developers to Make an Impact

With over 200 million monthly visitors (and growing), Quora is a platform that enables people from around the world to learn and share knowledge across millions of topics and interests. The company focuses on rapid iteration to create a high-quality user experience, and their development team’s advanced deployment processes are critical to ...

Customer Spotlight | How Quora Empowers Its Developers to Make an Impact

With over 200 million monthly visitors (and growing), Quora is a platform that enables people from around the world to learn and share knowledge across millions of topics and interests. The company focuses on rapid iteration to create a high-quality user experience, and their development team’s advanced deployment processes are critical to ...

Guest Blog | Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps

This is a special guest post from Marco Kuiper, Consultant at Info Support and blogger at Marcofolio.net.   Many developers are good at building things right, but far fewer are skilled at building the right thing. While you need a strong idea of what problem you’re solving for your users (and why and how), you can’t rely on vision and...

Guest Blog | Your Guide to Getting Feedback Fast and Building Better Apps

This is a special guest post from Marco Kuiper, Consultant at Info Support and blogger at Marcofolio.net.   Many developers are good at building things right, but far fewer are skilled at building the right thing. While you need a strong idea of what problem you’re solving for your users (and why and how), you can’t rely on vision and...

Behind the Scenes @ our Hackathon: Join the Hunt and Ship Intelligent Apps

Hello and G’day, Mike and Rob here*. We’re long-time developers and, in our current roles as Microsoft Global Black Belts, we help our customers set up CI/CD processes and create apps that use the latest technology and services, from Fortune 500 companies building dozens of apps to mobile-first organizations where apps are their business...

A/B Test All the Things: React Native Experiments with App Center

Visual Studio App Center helps developers ship better apps faster, but it also helps you build features your users will love. How? We designed App Center to be API-first and fully modular. This means that when you integrate App Center services with your existing toolchain, you have the flexibility to apply them to other parts of your ...

Guest Blog | A Mobile DevOps Retrospective, Part III: Measurement, the Last Mile

This is Part III in a special guest series from Greg Shackles, Principal Engineer at Olo. New to the series? Start here.   In my last post, I shared how automation, one of DevOps’ key concepts, frees our team to solve real problems, and how it’s created a cross-team “culture of ownership.” Everyone—from our developers to ...