
Interview with Atanas Chanev
Solutions Architect, Bitrise
Bitrise is focused on mobile-first. Can you talk us through some of your defining features?
One of the main defining features is the enablement and maintenance of the Mac infrastructure. It might be something companies are struggling with. So we are using the infrastructure and we are enabling it. The second defining feature of bitrise, is that there will always be a virtual machine, or in most cases, like more than 99%. A virtual machine that will be waiting for you to build.
Another defining feature is bitrise’s project scanner. Once you upload in your depository it will scan it and it will create some default workflows. Your build will be complete in a very short period of time.
On top of that there are more than 300 integrations that are open source so that the platform, engineers and devops engineers can develop together and cooperate in an effective way.
You already have a report out for 2022 on mobile banking. What can we learn from an engineering perspective?
One of the main defining features is the enablement and maintenance of the Mac infrastructure. It might be something companies are struggling with. So we are using the infrastructure and we are enabling it. The second defining feature of bitrise, is that there will always be a virtual machine, or in most cases, like more than 99%. A virtual machine that will be waiting for you to build.
Another defining feature is bitrise’s project scanner. Once you upload in your depository it will scan it and it will create some default workflows. Your build will be complete in a very short period of time.
On top of that there are more than 300 integrations that are open source so that the platform, engineers and devops engineers can develop together and cooperate in an effective way.
Your talk at Swift Heroes is on devops. Can you give us an idea of what you’ll be covering or what’s new for bitrise in the area of devops?
I’ll be speaking about building bitrise workflows in the suite programming language, so there are different ways to do that, it’s pretty cool actually. What’s new in devops: on the bitrise side is pipelines where we can check and visualise workflows and run them in parallel. Another new feature is Inside Pro that will help big customers like banks for example who have automation into new things.
With remote working this is an excellent way to monitor the suites. Also we have recipes which are configurations for tasks that are typical for mobile involvement. On top of that there’s the never ending quest to build faster and we are starting some interesting projects at bitrise around tools like Twist and Bazel.
Faster, cheaper but maintaining quality?
Yes, this is mostly around caching so that you don’t need to build something or run some tests if you don’t need to.
Swift Heroes is targeted to iOS developers – what is new from bitrise for those developers?
Yes, probably the biggest feature is the roll out of the M1 virtual machines for certain customers. These are the fastest machines at the moment and we will enable them very soon.
