Skip The App Store Review
No review. No delay. No action from the user. That is what Over-the-Air updates look like in practice.
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Why GitHub Actions Isn't Built for Mobile CI/CD (And What to Use Instead)
GitHub Actions is one of the best CI/CD platforms available today. For web apps, backend services, and infrastructure automation, it’s hard to beat. Deep GitHub integration, a massive marketplace of community actions, flexible YAML-based workflows, and a pricing model that’s generous for open-source projects. There’s a reason it dominates. But if you’re building mobile apps, especially for iOS, GitHub Actions starts to fight back. Not because it’s a bad tool.
Fix Bug Fixes In Minutes Not Days
You know this feeling. A critical bug. Your fix is ready. And now you wait days for App Store review. There is a better way to ship.
React Native Over-the-Air Updates in 2026: Skip the App Store Wait with Codemagic CodePush
If you’ve shipped a React Native app to production, you already know the feeling. A bug surfaces. Users are reporting it. Your fix is written, tested, and ready to go. And then you wait. Two days. Sometimes three. Occasionally five. App Store review doesn’t care that your ratings are dropping or that your support queue is filling up. It moves at its own pace, and your users experience every hour of the delay. CodePush over-the-air (OTA) updates change that equation entirely.
React Native Over-the-Air Updates in 2026: Skip the App Store Wait with Codemagic CodePush
Tired of waiting days for App Store review every time you need to ship a fix? In this video we break down how Over-the-Air (OTA) updates work for React Native apps and how Codemagic CodePush lets you push hotfixes, run experiments, and do controlled rollouts without touching the App Store or Google Play.
Why Your CI Failures Slow Down Everyone, Not Just QA
When a broken build requires one expert to decode it, the whole team pays the price. Here’s how to change that.
OpenTelemetry Trace Testing for CI Release Gates
OpenTelemetry is great at answering one question: “what just broke?” The problem is that most teams need a different answer first: “what is about to break in this release?” That is where trace-based testing comes in, especially for teams running a vendor-neutral OTel stack (Collector + Tempo/Jaeger + Prometheus) and needing deterministic release gates.
Lightning-fast infra for GitHub Actions: Bitrise Build Hub in 1 minute
Bitrise Build Hub: A drop-in replacement for GitHub's macOS runners. The largest dedicated Apple Silicon fleet for mobile CI/CD. M4 Pro Apple Silicon with 54GB RAM, Xcode updates within 24 hours, co-located build cache. One line of YAML. Bitrise provides a full-stack, vertically integrated mobile DevOps solution that unites the tools, processes and testing frameworks engineering teams need to build best-in-class mobile experiences. Over 400,000 developers use Bitrise’s products: Bitrise CI, Build Cache, Release Management, and Insights.
From Datadog to CI Tests: Catch Regressions Before Deploy
I worked in observability for years, and the same pattern showed up across teams. An alert fired, the on-call rotation scrambled, and everyone did what they had to do to stabilize production. Then came the retrospective. Once the immediate pressure was gone, the conversation shifted to one question: how do we make sure this never happens again? My friend Jade Rubick coined a name for that principle: DRI, “don’t repeat the incident”.
CI/CD Build Speed Benchmark: Codemagic vs GitHub Actions vs Bitrise
For teams using CI/CD, the specs of the build machine can have a significant impact on development productivity. Faster builds mean shorter fix-and-verify cycles, which speed up the overall development process. However, it’s hard to know how fast each CI/CD service actually is without comparing them under the same conditions. In this article, I compare the iOS build speeds of GitHub Actions, Bitrise, and Codemagic using the same Flutter project, and compare them in terms of cost-performance as well.