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It's Time to Rethink Untrusted Code in Your Pipeline | Harness Blog

The catastrophic TeamPCP exploit in March 2026 demonstrated that "open execution" models, in which third-party code runs with full privileges, have made CI/CD pipelines a primary target for global credential harvesting. There are better architectures. On March 19th, the risks of running open execution pipelines — where what code runs in your CI/CD environment is largely uncontrolled — went from theoretical to catastrophic.

3 Biggest Myths of Chaos Engineering

Are myths about chaos engineering preventing your team from building more resilient systems? In this video, Matt Schillerstrom, Director of Product Management at Harness and founding engineer of the chaos engineering program at Target.com, breaks down the three most common misconceptions about chaos engineering. Drawing from his experience building large-scale programs, Matt explains how to move past these myths to build confidence in your infrastructure.

Claude Livecaster Is Now Open Source, Plus a Two-Voice Broadcast Mode | CircleCI Loop Lab

Claude Livecaster is now public on CircleCI Research. In this update, Ryan Hamilton walks through the newly open-sourced repo, seven built-in simulation scenarios, and a new two-voice broadcast format featuring an anchor and a field correspondent narrating the action together. The demo scenario: Pipeline Wars, six CI pipelines racing across three providers, with Claude providing live color commentary on every Docker build failure, OOM kill, and production rollout.

We Made Claude Narrate an AI Model Race Like a Sports Commentator | Loop Lab

What if you didn't have to stare at logs while your AI agent worked? In this Loop Lab experiment, Ryan Hamilton built Claude Livecaster, a tool that gives Claude a live voice to narrate long-running agentic processes like a sports commentator. The demo: six AI models (GPT, Gemini, and Claude variants) race through a CI/CD benchmark, and Claude calls the whole thing play-by-play. Rate limit hits, comeback stories, photo finishes, all of it, out loud.

DevOps Workflow Strategy for Startups: 7-Step Guide (2026)

Reliability is the foundation of successful startups. Your product could have the most innovative features, but if it's plagued by downtime or performance issues, customers will eventually jump ship. Fortunately, creating an effective DevOps workflow strategy doesn't have to be complicated. This guide breaks down the essential components and implementation steps that startup DevOps and SRE teams need to focus on.

The SaaS Paradox: Why Companies Must Spend More On AI To Survive

At SaaS Metrics Palooza 2025, CloudZero CEO Phil Pergola delivered a keynote on the software industry’s most pressing question: can SaaS survive the AI revolution, or will AI rewrite the SaaS playbook outright? Phil’s answer wasn’t doom and gloom, but he didn’t sugarcoat the challenges. “Churn rates are up,” he told moderator Ray Rike of Benchmarkit on Oct. 9, 2025. “The payback from a customer acquisition cost perspective is taking longer.

Let's Encrypt simulated revoking 3 million certificates. Most ACME clients didn't notice.

On March 19th, Richard Hicks, one of our customers, emailed us about a certificate that had renewed after only a week. It was a 90-day certificate and he had not initiated the renewal. That’s the kind of thing that sends you straight to the logs. We found the answer right away. The certificate’s ARI renewal window had been shortened dramatically.