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James Smith

James Smith is CEO and co-founder of Bugsnag, a software stability management company. Previously, he was the CTO at Heyzap where he was instrumental in scaling the three person company to the world’s largest mobile gaming community and mobile ads platform with over 10 million users. He also worked at Bloomberg and has created a number of popular open source projects, which are used by companies such as Twitter, Pinterest and Trello. James has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and math from the University of Bath (U.K.).

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Do’s and Don’ts of Phased Rollouts Software Delivery

When it comes to app stability and user experience, the “move fast and break things” approach is a recipe for disaster. To protect brand reputation and to stay ahead of evolving needs and customer expectations, leading Silicon Valley companies’ software engineering teams have adopted phased rollouts, a software development method that involves the gradual implementation […]

Sep 9, 2021 · 3 min

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Code Ownership Is Key to Accelerate Debugging

App stability is a fundamental part of every app experience. Broadly speaking, app stability is a measurement of the number of total app sessions that are crash-free or the percentage of daily active users who do not experience an error. End users have little patience for apps that crash or fail. Every application, whether it’s […]

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