Patrick Debois, Etsy, and AWS on Mobile Delivery

this morning on #c9d9 we were joined by patrick debois, nassim kammah from etsy and trent peterson from aws , who are gearing up for a brand new devopsdays-styled event they are putting together — called mobile delivery days .

as a preview to the conference, happening march 21-22 in sf, we discussed the challenges that they were seeing in the mobile delivery space and the reason they got together to bring us this event. we talked about the tools and patterns in the mobile app ecosystem and how there’s a lack of clarity around what to use and how to use it, which is what they hope to solve for by bringing practitioners to attend the event, share their experiences and learn from each other.

watch the replay of this episode.

(also — register for the event here — it’s free, but filling up quickly, so act now!)

this episode features:

patrick debois

patrick debois is cto at small town heroes. he first presented concepts on the agile infrastructure at agile 2008 in toronto and, in 2009, he organized the first devops days, thereby coining the word “devops.” since then he has been promoting the notion of “devops” to exchange ideas between these groups and show how they can help each other achieve better results in business. in 2014, he joined small town heroes as cto, focusing on mobile apps and helping television broadcasters re-invent themselves in the internet era.

@patrickdebois | http://jedi.be/blog | http://smalltownheroes.be

nassim kammah

nassim kammah leads the app delivery engineering team at etsy. nassim has several years’ experience building and maintaining continuous integration environments for various platforms and languages. his recent work revolves around the mobile application delivery ecosystem, trying to apply the learning from continuous integration and continuous delivery to the unique challenges of the mobile apps space.

@kepioo

trent peterson

trent is the project manager for aws device farm, a mobile app-testing platform that helps developers automatically test their apps on 100s of real devices in minutes, catching issues before they’re released into the wild. he joined aws through the acquisition of appthwack, an app testing company he co-founded. prior to appthwack he was at intel designing system-automation solutions trusted to test products used by millions of customers with an emphasis on simplicity and user experience.

@tdpeterson