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CI/CD best practices | Harness Blog

Modern software teams are under constant pressure to ship faster without breaking production. That’s why CI/CD best practices have become essential for high-performing DevOps organizations. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) help automate builds, testing, and deployments — but simply installing a pipeline tool isn’t enough. Without the right practices, pipelines become slow, flaky, and difficult to govern.

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

‍Flaky tests are automated tests that pass or fail inconsistently without changes to the code. In this guide, you’ll learn why flaky tests happen, how to detect them automatically in CI pipelines, and how modern platforms prevent them from slowing teams down. Your test went well three times yesterday. It didn't work this morning. You ran it again without changing anything, and now it works. Congratulations, you've just passed a flaky test, and now someone's day is going to be ruined.

How to Protect Website Monitoring from Cloud Disruptions

The cloud is often spoken of as a separate realm where data exists safely away from the messy realities of the physical world. But as the events of March 2026 have reminded us, the cloud has a physical home, and that home is susceptible to the same disruptions as any other infrastructure. Here’s how diversified monitoring across independent data centers can keep visibility intact when cloud services go down.

Multi-Agent AI SRE Has Landed and Its Built for Your Most Complex Stacks

Once upon a time, a monolith running on a handful of servers meant that incident management, even at 2:17 AM, was something a single generalist could handle. One person with enough context across the stack could reasonably diagnose whether the database was choking, a config had changed, or a server was running hot. They’d fix it and go back to sleep.

Deployment strategies: Types, trade-offs, and how to choose

A deployment strategy is the method a team uses to move new code into a production environment. It determines how traffic shifts between versions, how much risk each release represents, and how quickly the team can roll back when something breaks. The choice isn’t academic: a mismatch between strategy and system can mean downtime, failed rollouts, or hours of manual recovery.

The Complete Guide to Kubernetes Cost Optimization

Kubernetes has revolutionized modern computing infrastructure, offering organizations near-infinite scalability, unparalleled agility in deploying new applications, and enhanced security. However, as enterprise cloud adoption continues to accelerate, that agility often comes with an unintended and costly side effect: skyrocketing cloud bills.

Mastering DX Netops Upgrade Automation

Upgrading a large DX NetOps environment with multiple components across distributed infrastructure can be a challenging endeavor. Network interruptions, time-consuming validations, and the need for detailed diagnostics have been persistent pain points for administrators. With the release of version 25.4.6 of the DX NetOps Upgrade Automation Tool, we've addressed these challenges head-on. This release introduces powerful new capabilities that fundamentally change how you approach upgrade operations.

The Top 6 Video Marketing Companies For Businesses In Los Angeles

Looking for a video marketing specialist to elevate your marketing efforts to the next level can feel tough work. Not least in a city like L.A., where many options are available. However, video marketing is shown to significantly boost sales and and conversions in modern business. Video production can also elevate staff training, customer support, and so much more. Partnering with a top video marketing firm should be a priority for companies around the world. Yet, it seems to carry even greater importance when your company is located in a city synonymous with movies, TV, and visual media.