

Mohit Karekar
Principal Software Engineer
Zalando

Principal Engineer at Zalando focusing on client platforms - web and mobile apps. I own the speed of delivery and reliability aspects of the platform and some major topics I’ve worked on include over-the-air updates for mobile apps, E2E automated testing platform, observability SDKs with OpenTelemetry and load testing at scale. On the side I love working with compilers, and wrote a short series to build one in TypeScript: tinyurl.com/compiler-ts
Building Over-the-air Updates for Zalando Mobile Apps
Session
Native iOS and Android releases for mobile applications have been a bottleneck in terms of speed of delivery and ultimately the rate of adoption for a long time. Can over-the-air updates solve this? At Zalando, we’ve been building an OTA solution - thanks to the move to React Native - to overcome the challenges of the native release process. My talk will walk you through the motivation, design and technical complexities of building such a solution. Join in for details on how we are tackling reducing the cost of data transfer, a robust client-side implementation and tooling, and our learnings.
