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Beyond the cloud: Inside Bitrise's data center for faster mobile CI

Jul 29, 2025 By Bitrise In Bitrise
In this webinar, Arpad Kun, VP of Infrastructure and Engineering at Bitrise, sat down with Solutions Architect Lex Zavala to reveal how our team addressed the pain points of traditional cloud-hosted CI and how Bitrise went all-in on a hybrid model—anchored in custom-built infrastructure. The Bitrise engineering team brought software and hardware together and built a vertically integrated, hybrid macOS/Linux private cloud in strategically located data centers to solve the biggest challenges of managing mobile CI/CD at scale.
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From CI pipelines to sheet-metal sorcery: Bitrise introduces "Mini Orchard"

Jul 22, 2025 By Arpad Kun In Bitrise
TL;DR – No flaky builds because of “data‑center air” at Bitrise! We built our own chassis that can talk to the Bitrise scheduler, can pre‑cool itself, and squeezes 32 Mac minis into a 6 rack unit oversized pizza box—while looking downright gorgeous doing it. We call it the mini Orchard.
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IPA: Mastering iOS app packaging with Bitrise

Jul 21, 2025 By Zoltan Baba In Bitrise
When developing iOS applications, creating an IPA file is a crucial step in distributing and testing your app. But managing this process—especially across development teams—can become tedious and error-prone if done manually. In this post, we’ll explain what an IPA is, why it matters in CI/CD pipelines, and how you can seamlessly generate, sign, and distribute IPA files using Bitrise automation.
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Understanding CI vs CD vs CT in DevOps: Key concepts explained

Jul 18, 2025 By Zoltan Baba In Bitrise
Speed isn’t everything in software development, but getting high quality apps out fast is still crucial. That’s where DevOps comes in: its core purpose is to streamline the delivery of apps as quickly and reliably as possible, without sacrificing quality at any stage of the process. ‍ At the heart of DevOps automation are three essential concepts: CI, CD, and CT. ‍ CI and CD are often used interchangeably, but each of the three concepts serves a distinct purpose.
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Why your consolidation strategy is breaking mobile (and how to fix it)

Jul 15, 2025 By Seb Sidbury In Bitrise
Picture the scene. You're sitting in yet another budget meeting, and someone inevitably pipes up with the golden question: "Why are we paying for seven different tools when we could just use one?" Everyone applauds. Confetti bursts from the ceiling. There’s a cake for some reason. That’s the siren song of vendor consolidation. It's everywhere these days, and honestly? It makes sense. Finance loves it because it’s cost savings that can be easily represented as a budget line item.
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Why remote build caching pays off for engineering teams: Key takeaways from our latest webinar

Jun 30, 2025 By Dan Žďárek In Bitrise
In our recent webinar, we tackled a familiar frustration for many engineering teams: long build times. Our expert panel broke down the problem and explored how remote build caching can deliver faster builds, improved workflows, and real business value. Here are the five biggest takeaways.
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Xcode 26 is coming with major stack updates

Jun 27, 2025 By Gabor Nadai In Bitrise
During an exciting WWDC25, Apple announced it would skip some numbers and align all OS and software versions to 26. Summer has just arrived, but we’re already keeping our eyes on Apple's usual keynote event in September. The Bitrise team is gearing up for the stable Xcode 26 stack release. We're passionate about providing you with the latest and greatest, and this new Xcode release is no exception. However, we also want to give you a heads-up about what this means for our platform and for our users.
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Bitrise becomes the first mobile DevOps platform to launch a data center in the EU, strengthening data sovereignty for European customers

Jun 26, 2025 By Barnabas Birmacher In Bitrise
‍Bitrise, the leading mobile DevOps platform, today announced plans to launch a data center in the Netherlands in a response to increased demand for data residency in the European Union (EU). The new data center will be the first in the EU operated by a DevOps Platform, providing businesses with a fully-hosted and managed solution to meet the stringent data security and compliance requirements of the region.
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New: Discover the true cost of mobile CI/CD with the Bitrise savings calculator!

Jun 12, 2025 By Seb Sidbury In Bitrise
When you think about CI/CD costs, license fees and compute minutes probably come to mind first. But that's just part of the story—especially for mobile. The real cost? Engineering hours lost to fiddly VM maintenance, endless stack upkeep, tooling drift, and waiting on slow builds. This inefficiency hits your bottom line hard, but it's pretty tough to quantify it on a spreadsheet. That’s where the Bitrise ROI calculator comes in.
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