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Studio IDE and Azure. The acquisition did not come as a surprise to the development
community. But the Xamarin company before the acquisition managed multiple
products at the time, including the Xamarin Test Cloud, Xamarin Insights, Xamarin
Profiler, and Xamarin Studio. After the acquisition, Microsoft eventually retired Xamarin
Studio and incorporated its features into Visual Studio for Mac. And it incorporated
Xamarin Profiler into the Visual Studio IDE.
Let’s briefly talk about Xamarin Test Cloud and Xamarin Insights. If you were an
active paying subscriber of the Test Cloud service, Microsoft automatically upgraded you
to a user of App Center. In addition, Microsoft imported teams, organizations, and your
apps and test reports into App Center in March, 2018. Microsoft then deprecated the
Test Cloud CLI, requiring users to make calls to the App Center CLI.Around the same
time, Microsoft retired the Xamarin Insights SDK and required you to use the App Center
SDK.These powerful products from Xamarin now fully live on within App Center and
Visual Studio.
Understanding DevOps
If you are a team member who wears all hats in a small, nimble team of a startup or a
member from a large, multi-national enterprise curious about the value of App Center,
you cannot deny the fact that we live in a world where speed to market is an essential
business strategy in the software world. The software world has changed and we must
adapt.
Why is speed to market so important in this business world? It gives us the ability to
deliver promised changes or releases to our customers at a faster rate. Increased speed
to market gives organizations the ability to respond faster to new or changing customer
requirements, market forces, and competition. For example, if customers report a bug
or request a new feature in your product, you can adapt and release. If you discover that
a new customer demographic has growing interest in your product, you can prioritize
certain features and release. If a new company releases a similar app with similar
features for free, you can add in-app purchases for premium features in your app and
make the base app free. The list goes on and on, but the common point is a need for
speed to market.
This is where DevOps comes in. DevOps stands for Development + Operations. The
ultimate purpose of DevOps is to release product changes on short time scales. This
section is by no means a complete explanation of DevOps because the subject matter is
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