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This is the fourth and final installment in our series about bringing AI to Bitrise. In Part 1, we explained why we built our own AI coding agent. Part 2 covered our browser-integrated AI Assistant. Part 3 detailed how we brought AI to the Bitrise Build Cloud. In this final post, we'll explore how we unified these efforts into a cohesive AI Platform.

When you're building agentic AI applications with multiple agents working together, the infrastructure challenges show up fast. Agents need to coordinate, users need visibility into what's happening, and the whole system needs to stay responsive even as tasks branch out across specialised workers. We built a multi-agent travel planning system to understand these problems better. What we learned applies well beyond holiday booking.

See how easily Konnect Metering & Billing transforms API and AI traffic management into new revenue streams. We've talked about why 2026 is the year of AI unit economics. There, we explored the "2025 hangover" where organizations realized that without financial governance, AI isn't just a science project but has become a margin-bleeding cost center. But "governance" and "monetization" shouldn't just be buzzwords in a resolution; they need to be part of your active infrastructure.

Today, we're excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.13. Kong Mesh 2.13 delivers full support for Mesh Identity for Kubernetes and Universal mode. Plus, it's been designated as a Long Term Support release, with support for a total of 2 years. But first, what's Kong Mesh for the uninitiated?

If you’ve recently upgraded to Debian 13 (“Trixie”) or a newer version of Ubuntu and suddenly started seeing security warnings when running apt update (or apt update --audit), don’t worry. You didn’t do anything wrong. This is a side effect of a broader security change across modern Linux distributions. SHA-1 signatures are being deprecated, and repositories that still rely on them may now trigger warnings or audits.

The recently released OWASP, “A Practical Guide for Securely Using Third-Party MCP Servers,” highlights a fundamental challenge in modern AI deployments: how do we govern, secure, and audit systems that are inherently non-deterministic? Unlike traditional, static software, AI agents dynamically adapt their execution paths, tool selection, and decisions based on context and real-time resources, allowing the same agent to achieve identical goals through entirely different approaches.

DreamFactory 2.5 now supports Apple Push Notification Service (APNs). This blog post will show you how easy it is configure DreamFactory as your iOS app’s push notification provider. Note that APNs support is a premium feature in DreamFactory's Silver and Gold products, not an open source feature. APNs is a native DreamFactory service that supports role-service-access, live API documentation, script access, etc.

If you want to spin up a fast API solution, DreamFactory is a great way to do that with a Bitnami install. Within minutes you can have a fully documented and secure REST API to utilize. Just like any program bundle, there are lots of features to learn and interact with. Outside of a Docker Swarm or AWS ELB setup, it is pretty hard to find a way to spin up a DreamFactory instance faster. We are going to dive in a bit further to find out how to interact with the system database.

KAi, the AI assistant inside Kong Konnect, just got significantly more capable. Today, we're announcing an enhanced beta version powered by the new Kong Konnect MCP Server — a shared infrastructure layer that also opens up your API platform to IDE copilots and custom agents. The result? KAi can now do things it couldn't before, and those same capabilities are available wherever you work. If you've used KAi before, you'll notice the difference immediately.