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Chinmay's expertise centers on making complex technologies - such as cloud-native solutions, Kubernetes, application security, and CI/CD pipelines - accessible and engaging for both developers and business decision-makers. His professional background includes roles as a software engineer, developer advocate, and technical marketing engineer at companies such as Intel, IBM, Semgrep, and Epsagon (later acquired by Cisco). He is also the co-author of “AI Native Software Delivery” (O’Reilly).

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Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in August 2026

Harness shipped 58 features in August 2026: an agent-scale code repository, AI Code Review, AI Risks scanning, and the Blast Radius Agent.

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September 2, 2026
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Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in August 2026

Harness shipped 58 features in August 2026: an agent-scale code repository, AI Code Review, AI Risks scanning, and the Blast Radius Agent.

September 2, 2026
11 minutes to read
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in August 2026

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in July 2026

Harness shipped 71 features in July 2026: Agent DLC, Harness CLI 3.0, Worker Agent governance, Kubernetes canary deployments, and AIBOM support.

August 3, 2026
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in July 2026

Technical

Reduce CI Costs Without Slowing Down Development

Learn how to reduce CI costs with test optimization, caching, and right-sized infrastructure. Cut build time and cloud spend by up to 75%.

May 20, 2026
5 minutes to read
Reduce CI Costs Without Slowing Down Development

Technical

Ship From Where You Build: Harness Delivery Intelligence, Now Inside Antigravity

Connect Harness MCP Server inside Google Antigravity to let AI agents inspect pipelines, debug deployments, trigger approved runs, and act on real-time delivery context with RBAC, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop controls.

June 22, 2026
5 minutes to read
Ship From Where You Build: Harness Delivery Intelligence, Now Inside Antigravity

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in June 2026

See everything Harness shipped in June 2026, including Autonomous Worker Agents, parallel DAG pipelines, AI Test Automation with Playwright, AI SAST, feature flag updates, and more.

July 3, 2026
11 minutes to read
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in June 2026

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in May 2026

See 60+ Harness updates from May 2026 across measuring AI ROI, AI-native development, software delivery, and security.

June 3, 2026
12 minutes to read
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in May 2026

Engineering

Unit Testing in CI/CD: How to Accelerate Builds Without Sacrificing Quality

Speed up your CI/CD builds with smarter unit testing strategies. Learn how AI-powered test optimization can give you faster feedback, lower costs, and better code quality.

February 11, 2026
14 minutes to read
Unit Testing in CI/CD: How to Accelerate Builds Without Sacrificing Quality

Engineering

Harness AI & Google Cloud Partnership: AI-Powered DevSecOps with Enterprise Security

Harness AI & Google Cloud Partnership: AI-Powered DevSecOps with Enterprise Security

October 30, 2025
3 minutes to read
Harness AI & Google Cloud Partnership: AI-Powered DevSecOps with Enterprise Security

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in August 2026

Harness shipped 58 features in August 2026: an agent-scale code repository, AI Code Review, AI Risks scanning, and the Blast Radius Agent.

September 2, 2026
11 minutes to read
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in August 2026

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in July 2026

Harness shipped 71 features in July 2026: Agent DLC, Harness CLI 3.0, Worker Agent governance, Kubernetes canary deployments, and AIBOM support.

August 3, 2026
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in July 2026

Technical

Reduce CI Costs Without Slowing Down Development

Learn how to reduce CI costs with test optimization, caching, and right-sized infrastructure. Cut build time and cloud spend by up to 75%.

May 20, 2026
5 minutes to read
Reduce CI Costs Without Slowing Down Development

Technical

Ship From Where You Build: Harness Delivery Intelligence, Now Inside Antigravity

Connect Harness MCP Server inside Google Antigravity to let AI agents inspect pipelines, debug deployments, trigger approved runs, and act on real-time delivery context with RBAC, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop controls.

June 22, 2026
5 minutes to read
Ship From Where You Build: Harness Delivery Intelligence, Now Inside Antigravity

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in June 2026

See everything Harness shipped in June 2026, including Autonomous Worker Agents, parallel DAG pipelines, AI Test Automation with Playwright, AI SAST, feature flag updates, and more.

July 3, 2026
11 minutes to read
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in June 2026

Technical

Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in May 2026

See 60+ Harness updates from May 2026 across measuring AI ROI, AI-native development, software delivery, and security.

June 3, 2026
12 minutes to read
Get Ship Done: Everything We Shipped in May 2026

Technical

From Commit to Approval, Without Leaving VS Code

The Harness VS Code Extension is now on the Marketplace. Monitor pipelines, debug logs, approve deployments, and query failures with Claude Code, Copilot, or Cursor, without leaving VS Code.

June 9, 2026
2 minutes to read
From Commit to Approval, Without Leaving VS Code

Technical

Azure Deployment Strategies & CI/CD Best Practices

Master Azure deployment with CI/CD, canary releases, feature flags, GitOps, and IaC. Learn how progressive delivery and Harness help teams ship faster, safer, and with fewer incidents.

June 9, 2026
12 minutes to read
Azure Deployment Strategies & CI/CD Best Practices

Technical

Mean Time to Failure (MTTF): What It Is and Why It Matters for Platform Engineering

Learn how Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) works, how to calculate it, and how DevOps teams use it to improve reliability, SLOs, and automation.

April 28, 2026
8 minutes to read
Mean Time to Failure (MTTF): What It Is and Why It Matters for Platform Engineering

Technical

Closing the AI Velocity Paradox: 55 Features Shipped in March 2026

March 2026: Shipping Features to Close the AI Velocity Paradox

April 2, 2026
9 minutes to read
Closing the AI Velocity Paradox: 55 Features Shipped in March 2026

Technical

Regression Testing in CI/CD: Deliver Faster Without the Fear

Learn how intelligent regression testing in CI/CD uses test impact analysis, flaky test detection, and automated rollbacks to ship faster without risk.

March 31, 2026
8 minutes to read
Regression Testing in CI/CD: Deliver Faster Without the Fear

Technical

AI Deployment in Production: Orchestrate LLMs, RAG, Agents

AI deployment in production in 2026: ship LLMs, RAG, and agents safely with CI/CD, semantic testing, guardrails, and progressive delivery.

March 26, 2026
8 minutes to read
AI Deployment in Production: Orchestrate LLMs, RAG, Agents

Technical

Argo CD Installation: Step-by-Step Guide for Enterprise DevOps Teams

Install Argo CD with Helm for enterprise GitOps: prerequisites, UI access, first app deploy, SSO/RBAC guardrails, HA basics, upgrades, and EKS notes.

March 25, 2026
11 minutes to read
Argo CD Installation: Step-by-Step Guide for Enterprise DevOps Teams

Technical

How to Plan a Successful CI/CD Migration Without Disrupting Developers

Plan a zero-disruption CI/CD migration with proven steps to protect developer workflows, secure pipelines, and roll out safely in waves.

March 25, 2026
8 minutes to read
How to Plan a Successful CI/CD Migration Without Disrupting Developers

Technical

Flaky Tests: The Quiet Killer of Productivity in Your CI Pipeline

Flaky tests waste developer time and break trust. Learn how to detect flaky tests in CI pipelines, fix root causes, and prevent failures using AI.

March 24, 2026
13 minutes to read
Flaky Tests: The Quiet Killer of Productivity in Your CI Pipeline

Technical

CI/CD best practices

Discover CI/CD best practices to build, test, and deploy faster. Learn how to create stable pipelines with progressive delivery and real-world DevOps tips.

March 24, 2026
10 minutes to read
CI/CD best practices

Technical

Code Coverage: Measure, Improve, and Scale Quality in CI

Learn how engineering & DevOps teams enforce code coverage in CI pipelines using diff coverage, quality gates, and policies—without slowing delivery.

March 23, 2026
14 minutes to read
Code Coverage: Measure, Improve, and Scale Quality in CI

Technical

What Is a DevOps Pipeline? Stages, Benefits, and CI/CD Explained

Learn what a DevOps pipeline is, how it works, and why it matters. Explore key stages, CI/CD concepts, benefits, and how automation improves software delivery speed, quality, and reliability.

March 23, 2026
6 minutes to read
What Is a DevOps Pipeline? Stages, Benefits, and CI/CD Explained

Technical

Parallel Execution in Modern CI: Best Practices & Results

Learn how parallel execution in CI reduces build times, controls cloud costs, and scales safely with test intelligence, caching, and governance.

March 20, 2026
4 minutes to read
Parallel Execution in Modern CI: Best Practices & Results

Technical

Intelligent Caching for CI/CD Build Optimization

Intelligent caching for CI/CD reduces build times, lowers costs, and improves developer flow with smarter testing and parallel pipelines.

March 20, 2026
9 minutes to read
Intelligent Caching for CI/CD Build Optimization

Technical

CI Pipeline Optimization Guide for Platform Engineering Leaders

Make the most of your platform engineering pipeline. Using AI-powered CI, you can speed up builds, cut costs, and boost developer productivity.

March 19, 2026
10 minutes to read
CI Pipeline Optimization Guide for Platform Engineering Leaders

Technical

Harness AI February 2026 Updates: Securing & Making the SDLC Reliable and Shipping Faster with Agents​

Harness AI's February updates tackle the AI Velocity Paradox with SAST/SCA & WAAP, smarter AI SRE Jira runbooks, and a powerful DevOps Agent upgrade.

February 26, 2026
3 minutes to read
Harness AI February 2026 Updates: Securing & Making the SDLC Reliable and Shipping Faster with Agents​

Technical

Harness AI January 2026 Updates: Human-Aware SRE and Smarter API and Application Security

Kicking off 2026 with Human-Aware SRE, AI-driven API naming, and natural language AppSec queries to automate your hardest post-code challenges.

January 29, 2026
Harness AI January 2026 Updates: Human-Aware SRE and Smarter API and Application Security

Technical

Harness AI Governance: Ship Faster Without Sacrificing Control

Learn how new Harness AI governance capabilities let teams generate OPA policies with natural language, build compliant pipelines from templates, enforce guardrails in real time, and trace every AI action without losing control.

January 7, 2026
Harness AI Governance: Ship Faster Without Sacrificing Control

Technical

KubeCon North America 2025: Recapping the Industry's Shift to AI Native Infrastructure

At KubeCon Atlanta 2025, Harness demonstrated how Agentic AI is transforming CI/CD from simple automation to adaptive, intelligent pipelines that reason, learn, and optimize delivery. The conference signaled a definitive move from "Cloud Native" to "AI Native," with Harness showcasing how AI is becoming the core substrate of software delivery rather than just an add-on.

November 13, 2025
5 minutes to read
KubeCon North America 2025: Recapping the Industry's Shift to AI Native Infrastructure

Technical

Harness AI October 2025 Updates: Smarter Pipelines, Instant Troubleshooting, Persistent Memories

Harness AI October 2025 updates bring smarter pipelines, instant troubleshooting, and persistent AI memory to streamline DevOps and overcome the AI velocity paradox.

November 11, 2025
5 minutes to read
Harness AI October 2025 Updates: Smarter Pipelines, Instant Troubleshooting, Persistent Memories

Technical

How Amazon Kiro and Harness Integration Speeds Up CI/CD Troubleshooting

The integration of Amazon Kiro and Harness’s MCP server enables developers to manage, troubleshoot, and optimize CI/CD pipelines directly from their IDE using natural language, dramatically reducing manual effort and accelerating software delivery from code generation to production.

September 29, 2025
How Amazon Kiro and Harness Integration Speeds Up CI/CD Troubleshooting

Technical

Modernize your Jenkins pipelines to a highly secure, AI DevOps platform with patented technology from Harness.

Migrating off Jenkins has always been a daunting task. But, with patented technology from Harness, you can migrate off Jenkins and modernize DevOps in a one day to a future-proof AI DevOps platform.

August 18, 2025
3 minutes to read
Modernize your Jenkins pipelines to a highly secure, AI DevOps platform with patented technology from Harness.

Technical

Harness AI Unveils Advanced DevOps Automation: Smarter Pipelines, Faster Delivery, and Enterprise-Ready Compliance

Introducing new agentic AI capabilities for Harness AI that makes automated and contextual DevOps workflows easy to create.

July 22, 2025
2 minutes to read
Harness AI Unveils Advanced DevOps Automation: Smarter Pipelines, Faster Delivery, and Enterprise-Ready Compliance

Technical

Harness AI Test Automation: End-to-End, AI-Powered Testing for Faster, Smarter DevOps

Make testing easier to create and maintain with GenAI

June 25, 2025
4 minutes to read
Harness AI Test Automation: End-to-End, AI-Powered Testing for Faster, Smarter DevOps

Technical

Source Code Management Best Practices for Secure Development

These source code management best practices can help developers manage their development pipelines securely and efficiently.

October 28, 2024
2 minutes to read
Source Code Management Best Practices for Secure Development

Technical

Continuous Integration Tools

Continuous Integration tools comparison: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI and Harness

September 11, 2024
3 minutes to read
Continuous Integration Tools

Technical

Cloud-based CI/CD

In a cloud-based CI/CD platform, your CI/CD software runs on cloud infrastructure instead of on-premises.

September 4, 2024
3 minutes to read
Cloud-based CI/CD

Technical

Basics of CI CD pipelines

A CI/CD pipeline is an automated workflow that enables teams to deliver software more frequently and reliably by automating the integration, testing, and deployment processes.

August 15, 2024
3 minutes to read
Basics of CI CD pipelines

Technical

What Are CI/CD Tools? Features, Examples, and Selection

Learn what CI/CD tools are, key features to compare, top examples, and how to choose the right platform to automate builds, tests, and deployments.

August 8, 2024
7 minutes to read
What Are CI/CD Tools? Features, Examples, and Selection

Technical

Continuous Integration Best Practices

The Ideal Continuous Integration (CI) process is essential for maintaining software functionality and quality.

August 5, 2024
3 minutes to read
Continuous Integration Best Practices

Technical

AWS CodeCommit Deprecated - What Should You Do Next?

Migration to a new SCM is always challenging. The right considerations and migration strategies can significantly help with the process.

July 31, 2024
3 minutes to read
AWS CodeCommit Deprecated - What Should You Do Next?

Technical

CI/CD Security: An Overview

Discover the importance of maintaining a secure "chain of custody" in CI/CD processes and how Harness can help.

July 29, 2024
5 minutes to read
CI/CD Security: An Overview

Technical

Kubernetes CI/CD Best Practices for Scalable, Secure Deployments

Learn Kubernetes CI/CD best practices, including ephemeral CI runners, artifact management, progressive delivery, and safe deployment strategies.

May 25, 2021
6 minutes to read
Kubernetes CI/CD Best Practices for Scalable, Secure Deployments

Technical

Continuous Integration Testing: Types, Best Practices, and Tools

Continuous integration testing runs automated checks on every code change. Learn the key test types, CI best practices, and how to scale CI testing.

April 15, 2021
6 minutes to read
Continuous Integration Testing: Types, Best Practices, and Tools

Technical

CI/CD Testing: The Complete Guide for Modern Software Delivery

Learn how CI/CD testing improves software quality through automated, continuous validation. Explore testing strategies, best practices, and pipeline optimization tips.

May 5, 2020
5 minutes to read
CI/CD Testing: The Complete Guide for Modern Software Delivery

Technical

CI/CD Pipeline: Everything You Need to Know

Learn all about CI/CD pipelines, their elements, benefits, and best practices to streamline your software delivery process. | Blog

December 10, 2020
11 minutes to read
CI/CD Pipeline: Everything You Need to Know
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