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Hey there, Google Cloud customers! We've got some exciting news to share with you. You can now purchase Bitrise through Google Cloud Marketplace as a private offering. That's right: the lightning-fast mobile CI/CD infrastructure and powerful automated workflows you love from Bitrise, now with all the convenience of procurement and consolidated billing through Google.

As consumer expectations rise, loyalty is becoming a top priority. In fact 67% of brands plan to significantly increase investment in strengthening consumer loyalty over the next year, according to a recent report by Apadmi, Europe’s leading digital product consultancy and longstanding Bitrise customer.

DevOps stands for Development and Operations. The term is a combination of: DevOps originated from the growing need to connect the silos between software development and IT operations. The adoption of agile practices in software development teams enabled developers to release software faster and more reliably. As developers sped up their processes, the Operations side of the organization started to struggle with the impact of agile on deployment, maintenance and stability.

We’re excited to announce the launch of our Gradle Test Distribution private beta on Bitrise. Starting today, Bitrise users can contact us to join the program and dramatically speed up Gradle test execution through scalable, parallel test distribution. This release is a major step forward for Android teams with large test suites and growing complexity. By hosting the Bitrise Build Cache, Test Distribution workers, and CI runners within the same data center fabric, we’re able to offer.

We're excited to announce that Remote Build Execution (RBE) for Bazel is now available in private beta on Bitrise. Starting today, select Bitrise workspaces can accelerate Bazel builds with scalable, parallelized execution on both Linux and macOS stacks. This release is a major step forward for teams using Bazel, especially those managing large, complex codebases that require speed, flexibility, and reliability.

No one starts their work day thinking “Let’s investigate the memory allocations of my Gradle build”, but sometimes life happens (usually at the worst possible time): Every Gradle project faces memory allocation problems eventually, as the codebase grows. So, instead of blindly applying JVM flags from Stack Overflow until it’s resolved, why not take a deeper look?

Our Advanced CI team is always trying to push what we have further, which often means we have to support APIs and code that are not yet fully stable. On the other hand, we are bound to support projects that are using deprecated code to a certain extent. This is particularly true for build systems that are rapidly changing to support the needs of application developers, such as Gradle.

At Bitrise, we continually invest in security best practices to ensure that our customer’s data stays safe and secure. As a part of an on-going effort, we are excited to announce that we’ve successfully completed our SOC 2 report. The examination was conducted by A-LIGN, a technology-enabled security and compliance firm trusted by more than 4,000 global organizations to help mitigate cybersecurity risks.

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.

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.