2024 · Lead engineerIn-house OTA updates
Replacing CodePush with a system we owned end to end.
- 100K+
- Monthly active users
- 0
- Vendor dependencies
- days → minutes
- Hotfix time
What was at stake
In early 2024 Microsoft announced the deprecation of AppCenter CodePush. Our release cadence depended on it — without OTA we were back to waiting on store review for every hotfix.
The calls I made
- Built the dashboard, database and APIs from scratch, with limited resources and a hard deprecation deadline.
- Rolled it out behind staged release channels so a bad bundle could never reach everyone at once.
What outlived it
- Full CodePush replacement, no third-party dependency in the update path.
- Powers OTA updates for 100K+ monthly active users today.
- Hotfixes ship in minutes instead of days.
- Open sourced, and still the thing Rently ships through.