Mobile DevOps Journey: Evolving Mobile Development at Swiggy (Episode 1)
Article Summary
Swiggy's mobile team was drowning in Jenkins bottlenecks. Build times were slow, machines crashed frequently, and manual interventions killed velocity.
The Indian food delivery giant migrated from their in-house Jenkins CI/CD setup to Bitrise, a specialized mobile DevOps platform. This case study breaks down their evaluation process, implementation, and the measurable improvements they achieved.
Key Takeaways
- Build times improved 40-50% using Bitrise's latest tech stack
- Parallelization reduced developer waiting time by 70-80%
- Evaluated Bitrise vs GitHub Actions vs EC2 across 7 criteria
- Downtime dropped to near-zero after years of frequent outages
- Automated testing integrated directly into GitHub PRs
Critical Insight
Swiggy cut build times in half and reduced wait times by up to 80% by switching from Jenkins to Bitrise for mobile CI/CD.
