Harness Blog: DevOps, CI/CD Insights

Best Argo CD Alternatives & Competitors

Discover top Argo CD alternatives like Flux, Jenkins X, and GitLab, each offering unique features for effective CI/CD in Kubernetes environments.

Harness Product Update | March 2021

Find out all the happenings from Harness product and marketing teams for the month of March 2021. ShipTalk Podcast anyone?

Jenkins PTSD: How One Developer Ditched the Butler For Good

If Jenkins was created to solve the pain point of automating the CI process, why does it require so much scripting?

Best Spinnaker Alternatives to Consider

Are you looking for a continuous delivery solution? We break down Spinnaker alternatives so that you can evaluate all of the best options.

Harness Commits New Dev Experience to Drone Community

Drone has several new capabilities to the Drone project so we can further simplify the developer self-service experience for Continuous Integration.

ShipTalk Podcast - DevOps in a Highly Regulated Industry

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Donovon Carter who is a DevOps Engineer at Dexcom, a medical device company. Dexcom is one of the firms leading the charge against diabetes with CGM, constant glucose monitoring technology.

Metrics to Improve Continuous Integration Performance

It is important to determine which continuous integration metrics are best to measure in order to track performance. Learn which performance metrics Harness measures.

Experimentation in Split: Make Your Events Work for You!

Learn how to extract, transform, and load user event data into Split to power experimentation and measure real feature impact at scale.

Continuous Delivery Tools to Consider

Explore the best continuous delivery tools, including open-source, platform solutions, and cloud provider options to streamline your DevOps workflow.

Swallowed Exceptions: The Silent Killer of Java Applications

In this post, our goal is to see what it takes to avoid the risks of mishandled errors.

Shiptalk Podcast - Shifting Complexities in DevOps with Jim Shilts

Jim has been working on solving engineering efficiency problems for over 20 years working at firms such as Build Forge and Electric Cloud, pre-dating the inception of Hudson/Jenkins. As Jim walks through his experience and how complexity and bottlenecks have shifted around in the decades gone by and what's in store for the future.

DevOps vs SRE: Enabling Efficiency and Resiliency

Understand the differences between SRE and Devops, and how to apply them to your teams.

The Women of DevOps: Patricia Anong

Meet Patricia Anong, DevOps Consultant. We're thrilled for you to meet her!

Best Octopus Deploy Alternatives & Competitors

Are you looking for an alternative to Octopus Deploy? We break down Octopus Deploy alternatives so that you can evaluate all of the best options.

The 5 Stages of Engineering Excellence : Chapter 2

Implementing the four DORA metrics should be the basis for all organizations to begin their journey to software engineering excellence.

Harness Product Update | February 2021

Find out all the happenings from Harness product and marketing teams for the month of February 2021. ShipTalk Podcast anyone?

GitOps Got Me Up

Two years ago, I joined the technology space - and as such, I am now a strong proponent for DevOps methodologies.

Build an API with Node.js, Express, and TypeScript

Build a RESTful API with Node, Express, and TypeScript, and integrate Split feature flags to safely manage feature rollout and experimentation.

The Logging Olympics: A Race Between Today’s Top 5 Java Logging Frameworks

Log4J vs SLF4J simple vs Logback vs Java Util Logging vs LOG4J2

ShipTalk Podcast - Washing Away Imposter Syndrome - Bart Farrell at Data on Kubernetes Community

Explore strategies to overcome imposter syndrome with Bart Farrell from Data on Kubernetes Community. Gain confidence and embrace change.

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Explore the basics of AI and machine learning, including key concepts, types, and their impact on various industries.

Tech Fair Live

Thur, Apr 15th

Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment: What’s the Difference?

Understand the differences between continuous delivery and continuous deployment, including key practices, benefits, and best tools.

ONUG 2021 | A Snapshot of DevOps

Wed, May 5th

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

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

Cloud Spend 101: Avoiding Bill Shock & Optimizing Kubernetes

Thu, June 6th @ 2 pm PT

SF Bay Cloud Native Containers | Applying Governance to CI/CD

Thu, May 13th @ 4 pm PT

{unscripted}

June 16-17

CDCon | The Impact of Continuous Delivery on Digital Transformations

June 23-24

Harness Deployment Freezes aka Deployment Blackout Windows

Discover how Harness CD's Deployment Freeze feature minimizes risk during critical business periods by scheduling blackout windows for code deployments.

ShipTalk Podcast - The Brass Tacks of Open Source - Tracy Miranda at CDF

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Miranda who is the Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation which is part of the Linux Foundation.Tracy chats through her experience creating thriving open source communities and practices from inception to maturity.

Top 8 Cloud Cost Management Tools

Discover the top cloud cost management tools to optimize your cloud expenses and enhance efficiency. Learn about their features and benefits.

The Complete Guide to Instrumentation: How to Measure Everything You Need Inside Your Application

What’s instrumentation and why do you need it in your application?

Value Stream Mapping for Software Delivery

Value stream mapping allows you to optimize your flow of materials and information by lowering costs and improving value adds. Read on to learn more.

Hygiene : The Key to Engineering Excellence

In an organization, the need for good data hygiene trumps everything else.

The Six Traits Behind Every Successful VP of Engineering

In this blog, I would like to share the key traits necessary for both promotion and success at the head of engineering level.

Empowers Developers with Harness

Vuclip found that Harness was the only solution that fully integrated with their GCP, Kubernetes, APM, and Log stack.

Achieves Global Continuous Delivery with Harness

Linedata saved $500k in developer toil. Find out how you can too.

3X Deployment Frequency & Decreases Deployment Time 75%

Find out how Marketron tripled velocity with Harness.

Migrates to Kubernetes with One Developer and Harness

Find out how Tilting Point sped up their cloud migration with Harness.

Selects Harness over Spinnaker For Secure Continuous Delivery

Relativity selects Harness over Spinnaker resulting in massive security improvements.

Reduces Deployment Time by 90% with Harness

Jobvite learns about the power of a true CD tool. Learn about their journey here.

Reduces Developer Toil by 94% Using Drone and Harness

Lavasoft uses both Drone and Harness to create the ideal software delivery environment.

Accelerates Kubernetes Migration by Four Months

Without Harness, Casting Networks would be 4 months behind their Kubernetes migration schedule.

Empowers 700 Engineers with Harness

Advanced saw a 10x return on their investment in 2 months. Find out how.

Accelerates AWS Cloud Migration

Beachbody avoided the headache associated with cloud migrations by leveraging Harness continuous delivery.

Static vs. Dynamic Code Analysis: How to Choose Between Them

When it comes to static vs dynamic code analysis, what’s the difference between them, and how do you know which one to use?

The Dependency and Plugin Hell That is Jenkins

Jenkins’ plugin model has become the “Slippers cat and duck” story of CI/CD. It’s not good.

Harness Product Update | January 2021

Read about the latest and greatest from Harness for the month of January 2021.

Not All Connections are Created Equal: Introducing Streaming Architecture

Split introduces real-time streaming architecture for faster feature flag updates with improved performance and reduced latency.

More Powerful Experiments and Personalization at Scale with Amplitude and Split

Integrate Amplitude cohorts with Split to personalize experiences, increase experimentation velocity, and accelerate impactful results.

The DevOps Tools Lifecycle Mesh for 2021

It's the role, and quite frankly, the duty, of every DevOps vendor to create a visual one-off masterpiece that represents the DevOps tools landscape.

Eliminates Delivery Toil

Learn how ABC Fitness drastically reduced the effort spend on software delivery.

What is CI/CD? Everything You Need To Know

This blog post will share everything you need to know about CI/CD, from code changes to continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployments, and CI/CD pipelines.

ShipTalk Podcast - Finding Your Tribe - Tracy Ragan at Deploy Hub

In this episode of ShipTalk, we are joined by Tracy Ragan who is the CEO of DeployHub. Tracy is no stranger to open source communities spending time with the Eclipse Foundation and Continuous Delivery Foundation.Tracy talks about her career and community journey and why it is important to find your tribe.

Democratizes Continuous Delivery Using Harness

Find out how Lessonly distributed the deployment workload to its developers.

Intro to Deployment Strategies: Blue-Green, Canary, and More

Learn how blue-green and canary deployments enhance application releases, offering reliability, easy rollbacks, and better user experience.

Harness announces $115M in new financing with a $1.7B valuation

Harness raises $115M in new funding, achieving a $1.7B valuation to enhance its AI-driven software delivery platform.

3X Deployment Speed & Reduces Downtime Risk by 85%

Find out how Iterable deployed faster and more securely.

“I Love Spending Money on Cloud Costs” - Said No One Ever

At Harness, we know all about cloud costs - and we know all about the potential savings a shop our size could muster if we took a good look at our spend. It would be enough for Smaug to feel a pang of jealousy - Smaug being, in this case, Google Cloud.

Deploy Your React App with Netlify

Build blazing-fast React apps with Netlify! Split feature flags integrate seamlessly with Netlify, empowering you to control rollouts, conduct A/B tests, and optimize your React applications.

Essential Guide to Experimentation

A/B testing is a powerful tool for product development, but how can you use it effectively? This guide explores how to set goals, design experiments, measure success, and learn from your results—even the failures.

Introducing Harness Custom Deployments

Harness recently launched a brand new feature called Custom Deployments. Custom Deployments, as the name suggests, is a way for users to perform any kind of deployment that might not be natively supported and provided by Harness out of the box.

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.

Gain New Perspectives on Your Cloud Bill

Harness just released a way to build and save custom dashboards and reports on cloud spend. Check out this new finops and cloud cost management tool.

Harness Product Update | December 2020

Read all about the new features, content, events, etc. that Harness has been working on during the month of December.

Declarative Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes: A Closer Look at Argo CD

Explore Argo CD's declarative approach for continuous delivery in Kubernetes. Learn about its features, benefits, and integration strategies.

ShipTalk Podcast - Always Stay Curious - DevOps Leadership - Frank at DataStax

In this episode of ShipTalk, we talk to Frank Moley who is a Senior Manager of platform engineering at DataStax.

Meltwater Runs 1200 Pipelines Per Day With Harness CI

Learn how Meltwater builds 1200 artifacts a day.

Harness Cloud Cost Management On AWS Marketplace

Mastering AWS Cost Optimization with Harness

The Definitive List of .NET Blogs and .NET Podcasts Every Developer Needs to Bookmark

3 Reasons to Automate Your Kill Switch (and 2 Reasons You Shouldn’t)

Feature flags and kill switches can be used to mitigate risk and improve the release process. Automating kill switches can be risky, but it can be beneficial if the risk of keeping them on outweighs the drawbacks of automation.

Creating Policy-Enforced Pipelines With Open Policy Agent

In this blog post, we will showcase how to use OPA to create a policy enforced CI/CD pipeline built in Harness.

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.

Scaled Kubernetes Continuous Delivery with GitOps

Learn how Ruckus scaled Kubernetes Continuous Delivery using Harness GitOps

Selected Harness over Spinnaker for CI/CD

Learn how Datastax upgraded their CI/CD with Harness

Replaced Spinnaker & Saved $275,000

Learn how MakerBot replaced Spinnaker and reduced CI/CD costs by $275,000

Standardized CI/CD Pipelines Across Teams

Learn how LogMeIn onboards new microservices in just one hour.

10 Tools Every React Developer Needs

Explore 10 powerful tools for building better React apps faster—plus a bonus feature flagging solution to boost release safety and speed.

A Home for ECS Developers

Harness understands that many customers are happy with their ECS environments and don’t have plans to move to Kubernetes.

Harness Product Update | November 2020

Learn about the most important new functionality delivered by Harness during the month of November 2020.

KubeCon 2020 Recap - Maturity in Cloud Native

Raking over the vast number of sessions in KubeCon North America 2020, we can start to see some trends. Where there is new or increasing number of talks can be a telltale sign of where the market is headed and for decreasing number of talks is an indication of maturity in the technology.

The Surprising Complexities of Building Audit Logs

Audit logs are essential for security, compliance, and troubleshooting. This article delves into the challenges of building robust audit logs, such as designing flexible structures and prioritizing specific use cases.

Delivering Reliability Through SRE Practices

This blog shares some popular SRE practices and how to apply them to enable continuous delivery.

Understand cloud costs for every deployment with Harness

Control of your cloud costs and to let your developers see the cost impact of their deployments in real-time.

Kill Your Code Freeze Before Next Holiday Season

Code freezes can disrupt development and increase risk. Learn how feature flags can help you avoid unnecessary freezes and improve your software release process.

Harness Product Update | October 2020

It’s October and the ghosts and ghouls at Harness have been busy adding more features, squishing bugs, and putting on {Unscripted} conference for your DevOps enjoyment.

The Dos and Don'ts of Feature Flags

Want to accelerate software delivery and reduce risks? Feature flags are the key. Discover best practices for managing, monitoring, and retiring flags to optimize your release process and improve user experience.

CLR vs JVM: How the Battle Between C# and Java Extends to the VM-Level

The battle between Java and C# is never ending. Find out how differences at the VM-level affect this debate.

Road to {Unscripted} - Getting the Most Out of a Virtual Conference

Our first inaugural {Unscripted} is almost here and we could not be more excited to have you. Learn tips and tricks to make your virtual conference experience great.

What Is a CI/CD Platform and Why Should I Care?

Discover the importance of CI/CD platforms and how they streamline software delivery, improving efficiency, security, and overall performance.

Introducing The Heroes of Continuous Delivery

Discover how Harness celebrates Continuous Delivery experts with the Heroes of CD program, highlighting their contributions to software delivery excellence.

Harness Product Update | September 2020

If you are in the Northern Hemisphere, fall is in the air in September. As our coffee starts to include more pumpkin spice, we have been hard at work at Harness helping our community and clients raise the bar.

Getting Started with Cloud Cost Optimization

Learn to manage and optimize cloud costs effectively using Harness. Follow step-by-step instructions for AWS, Kubernetes, and more.

Split’s Simple How-To Guide for A/B Testing

Use A/B testing and feature flags to optimize user experience, drive business growth, and make confident, data-driven product decisions.

7 Ways Feature Flags Improve Software Development

Feature flags drive safer rollouts, empower experimentation, simplify migrations, and enable faster, more resilient software development.

Migrate from Monolith to Microservices

Breathe new life into your monolithic application! This article provides a step-by-step guide on migrating to microservices using feature flags to minimize risk and ensure a smooth transition.

Do You Really Need that Change Advisory Board?

Change Advisory Boards (CABs) are often used to manage software delivery, but can they slow down the process without improving safety? This article explores CABs, their role, and suggests alternative approaches for safe and speedy delivery.

Harness Product Update | August 2020

August has certainly been heating up in the dog days of Summer here in the Northern Hemisphere. Our biggest announcement is the arrival of Drone, now Harness CI to the Harness Family.

Java vs. Native Agents – And How It Affects Your Code

The difference between Java and native agents and how it will impact your code and applications.