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Flutter builds are way faster with M1 machines: A comparison of VMs

In November 2020, Apple released the M1 MacBook and, one year later, the M1 Pro/Max chips. Since then, we have all read and heard from other people about the crazy performance improvements. Perhaps you already read the tweet by Jameson Williams (a staff software engineer at Reddit): So we know that M1 machines are fast, but should we use them in CI/CD to speed up our pipeline? To help answer that question, we compared the M1 mini, Mac Pro, and Mac mini for iOS and macOS builds with Codemagic.

Interview tips when appearing for QA roles

Hello Peeps, I hope you are all doing good. Software job trends are changing frequently. To match that, the expectations for Software Testers and Quality Assurance (QA) roles are also changing. Most organizations realized the importance of software testing and the testers. In this era, testing is also evolving to a greater extent. Also, testers are involved in multiple software development phases due to the influence of Agile methodology.

Deploy to Bitrise.io Step Changes  Bitrise Feature Updates

The recently released 2.0.7 version for the “Deploy to Bitrise.io - Apps, Logs, Artifacts” Step switched storing artifacts from AWS S3 to Google Cloud Storage, which means improvements in speed, especially for testing and deployment. For getting these improvements, please make sure you are using version 2.0.7 (or above) for the “Deploy to Bitrise.io - Apps, Logs, Artifacts” Step. We suggest locking the Step to the 2.x.x version as soon as possible to gain speed improvements instantly.

Updating your dependencies for M1 Macs and CI/CD

TL;DR: This article covers how to update dependencies for Homebrew, CocoaPods, Carthage, Ruby, and more if you are using M1 Macs. However, for the M1 Mac minis available on Codemagic, you don’t have to do anything described in this article — everything is already preinstalled and preconfigured, so you can just use them right away.