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Ravi Lachhman

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Ravi Lachhman builds the systems that help platforms scale. Over the past 15+ years, Ravi has worked across distributed systems, open source, DevOps, and enterprise modernization. Today his focus sits at the intersection of product, ecosystem, and revenue, turning complex platforms into durable adoption engines. Ravi has led developer advocacy, product initiatives, partner programs, and certification strategies in high-growth environments. He cares deeply about technical credibility and alignment across product, sales, and services so adoption is not accidental, but intentional and measurable. At his core, Ravi is a systems thinker who enjoys operating where product, field, and community intersect.

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How to Prioritize the Developer Experience and Improve Output

Developer experience (DX) is how developers feel as they build and ship software. Improve developer experience to boost productivity, reduce toil, and ship faster.

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April 2, 2026
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Delegates and Agents - Onramp to Scale with Harness

By leveraging a Harness Delegate or GitOps Agent, you are able to model commands you would have to maintain locally for remote execution.

September 27, 2023
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Delegates and Agents - Onramp to Scale with Harness

By leveraging a Harness Delegate or GitOps Agent, you are able to model commands you would have to maintain locally for remote execution.

September 27, 2023
7 minutes to read
Delegates and Agents - Onramp to Scale with Harness

Technical

Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part One

In this two-part example, we will be trying to deploy a purpose-built vulnerable container into a Kubernetes cluster. Part one will focus on a basic integration and part two will focus on more operationalizing the integration.

September 21, 2022
14 minutes to read
Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part One

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SRE vs. DevOps: Key Differences, Roles, and How They Work Together

Learn SRE vs DevOps, key metrics, and how AI-powered SRE helps teams balance delivery speed with system reliability.

March 4, 2021
2 minutes to read
SRE vs. DevOps: Key Differences, Roles, and How They Work Together

Technical

How to Prioritize the Developer Experience and Improve Output

Developer experience (DX) is how developers feel as they build and ship software. Improve developer experience to boost productivity, reduce toil, and ship faster.

April 2, 2026
9 minutes to read
How to Prioritize the Developer Experience and Improve Output

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The Importance of Continuous Verification

Continuous Verification: Is a critical step in the deployment pipeline that validates deployments.

May 19, 2023
3 minutes to read
The Importance of Continuous Verification

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Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part Two

Continuing on from part one of the series, we will be leveraging the Harness Platform to further operationalize vulnerability scanning in your CI/CD pipeline.

January 4, 2021
10 minutes to read
Vulnerability Scanning in your CI/CD Pipeline - Part Two

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What is PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)?

Discover how PaaS transforms software development and how Harness elevates Continuous Delivery, making deployments seamless and efficient.

February 21, 2021
5 minutes to read
What is PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service)?

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Pipeline Patterns for CI/CD Pipelines

Explore effective CI/CD pipeline patterns for fast, reliable deployments. Learn key strategies to optimize your software delivery.

May 19, 2021
3 minutes to read
Pipeline Patterns for CI/CD Pipelines

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What is O11Y? Observability Demystified with Chris Riley from Splunk

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Chris Riley who is a Senior Developer Advocate at Splunk talking about all things Observability [O11Y].

May 11, 2021
18 minutes to read
What is O11Y? Observability Demystified with Chris Riley from Splunk

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Comparing Helm vs Kustomize

Two tools to tackle configuration and package management inside the Kubernetes ecosystem: Kustomize and Helm, respectively. Learn how they compare in this post!

April 7, 2021
6 minutes to read
Comparing Helm vs Kustomize

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IT Audits - How Continuous Delivery can Help

Everyone’s favorite word, IT audit. Not like auditing a class in college, audits are not limited to IT Risk folk.

February 19, 2020
5 minutes to read
IT Audits - How Continuous Delivery can Help

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Your First Harness CI Installation, Build, and Publish

Your Harness CI journey starts with Drone, a popular Continuous Integration platform. Learn how to get started with your first build and push.

August 6, 2020
4 minutes to read
Your First Harness CI Installation, Build, and Publish

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What is a Kubernetes Container?

Come with us on a six-part journey getting you prepared to be a sharp knife in the new-fangled land of Kubernetes. From the very basic to the future, let’s get ship done.

July 16, 2019
6 minutes to read
What is a Kubernetes Container?
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