CloudWatch is great for observing and monitoring resources and applications on AWS, on premises, and on other clouds. While it's trivial to have the agent running on Linux, it's a bit more involved for mac instances (which are commonly used as CI workers). The support was announced in January 2021…
Overview Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides EC2 Mac instances commonly used as CI workers. Configuring them can be either a manual or an automated process, depending on the DevOps and Platform Engineering experience in your company. No matter what process you adopt, it is sometimes useful to log into the…
I previously wrote about JustTweak here. It's the feature flagging mechanism we've been using at Just Eat Takeaway.com to power the iOS consumer apps since 2017. It's proved to be very stable and powerful and it has evolved over time. Friends have heard me promoting it vehemently and some…
In this article, we’ll discuss the way our mobile teams have evolved the Continuous Integration (CI) stack over the recent years.…
We have presented our modular iOS architecture in a previous article and I gave a talk at Swift Heroes 2020 about it. In this article, we’ll analyse the challenges we faced to have the modular architecture integrated with our CI pipelines and the reasoning behind migrating to a monorepo.…
Hey there! I had the pleasure to talk at Swift Heroes [http://swiftheroes.com/] Digital on October 1, 2020. The talk "Scalable Modular iOS Architecture [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzM3lsFewN4]" is about the unfolding of a multi-year iOS vision at Just Eat, restructuring the whole app from the…
Problem I wrote the first version of iHarmony [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/iharmony/id292413210] in 2008. It was the very first iOS app I gave birth to, combining my passion for music and programming. I remember buying an iPhone and my first Mac with the precise purpose of…
Localizations, locales, timezones, date and currency formatting... it's shocking how easy is to forget how they work and how to use them correctly. In this article, I try to summarize the bare minimum one needs to know to add internationalization support to an iOS app.…