In the world of development, the speed of development and releasing code has exponentially increased. In fact, as much as 83% of developers claim they are releasing code faster than even just 2 years ago. However, developers did not simply become more efficient, but rather new innovations have helped propel the speed of development forward. One such innovation is called a CI/CD pipeline.

CI/CD stands for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment. CI/CD pipelines involve a manner of application development that focuses on partial or complete automation with processes involving the deployment of new updates to an application. This new innovation is especially pertinent to mobile application developers. With over 7.33 billion mobile users, the developers are struggling to keep up and are in need of new technological assistance.

To help meet this need, external applications have been created to help bring CI/CD to mobile applications. For instance, Bitrise is an application that integrates CI/CD and allows for testing and automatic deployment of application updates. This includes support for numerous platforms and hosts over 100,000 developers already.

Ultimately, CI/CD automation has already shown to revolutionize large aspects of the code deployment process. Taking advantage of this innovation is paramount to keeping up with the modern and ever changing landscape of application development.