New post: Build your iOS applications faster with a CICD pipeline

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@bketelsen This article is ready for technical review.

[bketelsen]

a few small changes requested. Thorough and thoughtful article, thank you for the contribution.

[scribwell]

@sebsto Would you please address Brian's edits from his technical review?

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[sebsto]

Thank you for the feedback.
Changes are all in this commit 4cded18

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@damonk10 This article is ready for your editorial review.

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[damonk10]

This introduction is well-written, but it takes too long to get to the point -- and it's slightly redundant with the section on automation. How would you feel about something like this?

"When it comes to building, testing, and deploying applications, software development engineers and devops engineers must master the art of automation. Today, most backend or frontend web applications are built automatically and, sometimes, are also deployed to production as changes occur.

The workflows that facilitate this process - fetching code, building it alongside code from other developers, running various tests, and even deploying the changes - are called continuous integration and continuous deployment, or CI/CD for short. CI/CD helps to reduce the time to deliver new code to your customers. It also helps to detect issues faster and to accelerate feedback cycles. The IT industry considers CI/CD as a best practice.

While CI/CD workflows for Linux and Windows have been thoroughly explained, though, building such pipelines to develop applications for Apple operating systems is less commonly understood. iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS require their own unique approach to CI/CD, and building that pipeline is what we'll be learning how to do in this post."

[sebsto]

Thank you for the suggestion. It reads and flows nicely.

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