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Comparing Load Testing Tools for CI/CD Pipelines: 2026 Guide to Choosing the Right Fit

Selecting load testing tools for your CI/CD pipeline is a lot like picking between a scalpel and a Swiss Army knife. A scalpel – the focused, specialized solution – excels at one job with surgical accuracy. Think of Apache JMeter or Gatling: these tools are designed for deep, targeted testing, offering powerful scripting and low-level protocol support. They let you dial in precise scenarios and slice through performance bottlenecks with fine control.

Designing scalable OTA update architecture for React Native

Self-hosting OTA updates became common after App Center and CodePush shut down in 2025. CodePush had been the popular free option, but the remaining hosted services easily hitting five or six figure bills for popular apps. For staging-only or use with small user bases, self-hosting is fairly straight forwards. But, as the user base grows, the architecture can start to struggle and bolt on pieces are required.

React Native OTA updates: Bitrise CodePush demo

From our CodePush webinar: a practical walkthrough of setting up and managing CodePush for over-the-air (OTA) updates on Bitrise using a React Native application. Staff Solutions Engineer Atanas Chanev shows you how updates are handled by pushing a direct update via the command-line interface, promoting a staging release to production, and executing an emergency rollback to a previous version using the API.

Walkthrough: Bitrise Desktop App

Senior Product Manager Kaushal Vyas walks through the Bitrise desktop app, showing you how to rescue your focus from endless browser tabs. Inside: how to pin your mobile CI/CD pipelines right to your macOS menu bar, set up targeted build filters, customize failure notifications, trigger new builds, and utilize convenient shortcuts to access specific commits, pull requests, and logs.

Bitrise Remote Development Environments demo

In this short demo, our Senior Solutions Engineer Naveen Nazimudeen introduces Bitrise Remote Developer Environments (RDEs) and shows how they speed up mobile development. If you'd like to learn more, get in touch with us! 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.

CI/CD Testing Guide: What to Test at Every Pipeline Stage

Shipping fast is great until the wrong thing ships fast. A CI/CD pipeline can move code from commit to production in minutes, but speed alone does not tell you whether a login still works, a checkout flow still completes, or a critical form still submits. That is the job of CI/CD testing. The best pipelines do more than pass builds. They catch small problems before they become customer-facing ones, using the right mix of unit, integration, API, browser, smoke, and post-deployment tests.

Bitrise Remote Developer Environment CLI: Update iOS App for Xcode 27

Get your iOS app working with recently released Xcode 27 beta using Claude Code running in an RDE. Spin up a trial, and try for yourself! You can power your Agentic AI Development Loop with Bitrise Remote Developer Environments (RDE). Cloud VMs that run on the same infrastructure as Bitrise CI used and trusted by thousands of mobile customers.

Announcing Codemagic Patch: an open-source CodePush rebuild for React Native

Having maintained a CodePush fork for 18 months and served billions of updates, we decided it was time for an overhaul. We’re big fans of CodePush, and it was a great benefit to the React Native community. But, it was written in 2015 and had some weaknesses. The biggest of these was architectural, with limitations in how update checks and release metadata could scale. The result, Codemagic Patch, is now public and available to self-host.