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On-demand Webinar
On-demand Webinar

Improve developer efficiency and control CI costs effectively | Harness Resource

In today's competitive landscape, engineering leaders face the dual challenge of boosting developer productivity while managing infrastructure costs. This webinar presents a comprehensive strategy for achieving both objectives through intelligent optimizations and AI-powered testing solutions.

Join us to discover practical strategies that will help your team ship high-quality code faster while keeping costs under control and leveraging AI-powered testing to transform development workflows.

Meet Our Speakers:

  1. Dinesh Garg, Senior Director of Engineering at Harness
  2. Pranav Rastogi, Senior Director of Product Management at Harness
  3. Chinmay Gaikwad, Director of Product Marketing at Harness

Key Topics:

  1. Implementing intelligent caching strategies to reduce build times and compute costs
  2. Selecting and scaling build machines for optimal performance
  3. Leveraging metrics and dashboards to identify bottlenecks and optimization opportunities
  4. Real-world examples of organizations that achieved significant cost savings
  5. Leveraging AI for both unit and integration testing

Unlock new efficiencies in your development pipeline with insights from experienced engineering leaders. No more hypotheticals—this session is all about actionable strategies and real-world applications. Join us and connect with engineering leaders who are eager to share and learn from real experiences.

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Published
January 1, 2024

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What you'll learn

Key Takeaways

Developers spend minimal time actually coding

Developers spend only a quarter of their time coding, with the rest consumed by non-coding activities like waiting for builds. Optimizing build and test cycles directly increases coding velocity and reduces product costs.

Inefficient testing causes severe productivity bottlenecks

Running entire test suites for minor code changes leads to hours of waiting and cognitive overload. Implementing test intelligence to run only relevant tests prevents expensive reruns and flaky infrastructure issues.

Combine ephemeral infrastructure with intelligent caching

While ephemeral build environments prevent infrastructure flakiness, they can increase build times by requiring fresh dependency downloads. Using intelligent caching for software dependencies and Docker layers provides the best balance of speed and reliability.

Enforce security guardrails using policy as code

Tools like Open Policy Agent allow organizations to mandate security steps, such as required vulnerability scans, within the pipeline. This approach prevents misconfigurations while maintaining granular access control and comprehensive audit trails.

Modernizing CI pipelines drastically reduces build times

By moving away from legacy systems and consolidating pipelines, organizations can achieve massive performance gains. One migration example showed median build times dropping from two hours to twenty minutes while significantly reducing infrastructure costs.