Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Bluesky apps

Apr 19, 2024

Paul Frazee from Bluesky discusses building and deploying mobile and web apps from the same code base. They explore challenges in user growth, technology development, protocol evolution, and user engagement. They also touch on the benefits of using Notion as a workspace tool and the complexities of testing and deploying the Bluesky app.

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Quick takeaways

Coordinating app releases across platforms requires pre-planning to address varying review processes and minimize confusion among users.

Blue Sky's focus on decentralization and evolving protocols necessitates a balance between agility in updates and maintaining protocol integrity.

Navigating review processes for app updates and dynamic content requires adaptability through contract-oriented design and runtime validation.

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Challenges of Coordinating App Releases

Coordinating app releases across different platforms, such as web, Android, and iOS, poses challenges due to varying review processes and delays. Apple's review process can be more transparent and allow you to accelerate reviews, while Google's process can be more opaque. Pre-publishing releases and coordinating timings is crucial to prevent confusion among users. Over-the-air updates offered by tools like Expo help in pushing urgent hot fixes, like the recent back button issue fix.

Introduction

2min

Challenges with Alert Assignments, Celebration of 100th Episode, and Interview with Blue Sky Team Member

2min

Decentralized Success and Comparison: Mastodon vs. Blue Sky

8min

Navigating the Complexities of Social Media Platforms and Transitioning to Blue Sky

17min

Navigating Challenges in User Growth and Technology Development

14min

Navigating Protocol Evolution and User Engagement

12min

Navigating Information Overload with Notion in 2024

2min

Testing and Deployment of Blue Sky App

10min

Casual Conversations and Podcast Promotion

2min

Paul Frazee joins the show to tell us all about how Bluesky builds, tests, and deploys mobile and web applications from the same code base.

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Paul Frazee✌️ – GitHub, X
Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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