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Usability Testing Explained: How to Evaluate User Experience and Improve Product Design with Harness

Usability testing is a powerful method for understanding how real users interact with your product, and uncovering the friction, confusion, and hidden roadblocks that can impact the user experience. In this video, we break down what usability testing is, why it matters, and how observing real user behaviour can help teams create more intuitive, user-friendly software.

Winning Variations Explained: How to Identify True A/B Test Success With Statistical Confidence

A winning variation isn’t just the version that “looks better”, it’s the version that truly and measurably outperforms the control. In this video, we break down what a winning variation is, how to determine it, and why statistical significance is essential for making confident, data-driven product decisions.

Harness AWS: From Code to Cloud, Smarter and Faster

Harness makes software delivery in AWS faster, safer, and more delightful. Harness, the AI Platform for Everything After Code, offers CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code management, and cloud cost management capabilities tailored to the AWS environment. Harness has come a long way since its 2019 debut on the AWS Marketplace. Back then, over half of Harness customers were already running on AWS, and Harness focused on delivering Continuous Delivery as a Service for AWS applications.

From Concept to Reality: The Journey Behind Harness Database DevOps

Harness Database DevOps was born from a simple question - how can database delivery be as seamless and safe as application delivery? Through deep collaboration with design partners, open-source learnings, and relentless iteration, the team built a platform that unites developers, DBAs, and DevOps under a single, automated workflow. At its core, it’s a story of empathy-driven engineering - transforming database change management into a faster, more reliable, and collaborative experience.

Defend Against Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Attack with Harness SCS

Shai-Hulud 2.0 shows how quickly a compromised maintainer account can result in thousands of infected NPM packages and repositories within hours. Harness SCS provides end-to-end SBOM visibility, policy enforcement to block compromised NPM packages, and complete traceability to detect malicious components early and prevent them from entering your pipelines.

Software Release Life Cycle Explained: From Planning to Production

Software doesn’t go live overnight. It moves through a structured, repeatable process known as the software release life cycle — from initial planning to deployment and ongoing maintenance. In this video, we break down each stage of the release cycle: planning, development, testing, staging, deployment, and monitoring. You’ll also see how modern tools like Harness help teams automate CI/CD, feature flags, testing, and progressive delivery to ship better software faster and with less risk.

What Is a T-Test? A/B Testing with Statistical Confidence

When running A/B tests, how do you know if the results are actually meaningful — or just random chance? That’s where the t-test comes in. In this video, we explain how t-tests help you evaluate whether changes in conversion rates, engagement, or performance metrics are statistically significant. You’ll learn how they work, when to use them, and why they’re essential for making confident product, marketing, and engineering decisions.

What Is Multivariate Testing? A Guide to Experimenting With Multiple Elements

A/B testing is great — but what if you want to optimize more than one thing at a time? That’s where multivariate testing (MVT) comes in. In this video, we break down how MVT works, why it gives you deeper insights than A/B testing, and how you can use it to test multiple page or app elements at once. You’ll learn how to run multivariate tests, when to use them over A/B tests, and how Harness makes this seamless inside your CI/CD pipeline.

Making Your Business Resilient Against Cloudflare Like Outages

Cloudflare-like outages can cost your business a significant amount of money. This week’s Cloudflare global outage is a wake-up call for business resilience. You can stay resilient against such outages by regularly performing resilience testing and updating your application or infrastructure configurations.

Introducing Native Flyway Support for Harness Database DevOps

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.

Harness Database DevOps Adds Flyway Support

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.

Automating Chaos Engineering with Terraform

Automating chaos engineering with Terraform eliminates manual setup across environments by enabling you to version control your entire chaos infrastructure, from service discovery to security governance policies. The Harness Terraform provider supports end-to-end automation including Kubernetes infrastructure setup, custom image registries, Git-based ChaosHub management, and granular security controls that ensure safe experiment execution in production.

Dynamic Stage | Execute a Pipeline within a Stage !

The new Dynamic Stage allows you to import and execute an entire pipeline's YAML definition inside a single stage of your current pipeline. It is essentially running a pipeline within a stage. The pipeline YAML can either be generated and transformed at runtime in a previous stage, or be directly provided to the source input of the Dynamic Stage in encoded form. Dynamic Stages work seamlessly across Harness CI and CD modules.

The AI Visibility Problem: When Speed Outruns Security

Harness surveyed 500 security practitioners and decision makers responsible for securing AI-native applications from the United States, UK, Germany, and France to share findings on global security practices. The State of AI-Native Application Security 2025 dives deep into AI visibility and the changing landscape of security vulnerabilities. If 2024 was the year AI started quietly showing up in our workflows, 2025 was the year it kicked the door down.

Harness Commitment Orchestrator: A Modernized FinOps Experience

Harness has modernized Commitment Orchestrator to give FinOps teams a clearer, faster, and more intelligent way to manage cloud commitments. The redesigned experience unifies visibility across RIs, Savings Plans, on-demand, and Spot usage, with expanded metrics and streamlined workflows for smarter decisions. Built on a foundation for AI-powered insights, it helps teams optimize spend with greater confidence and less manual effort.

When Cloud Providers Have an Outage, Your Feature Flags Shouldn't

Cloud outage? Your flags should keep running. Harness Feature Management ensures seamless feature delivery with instant SDK fallback, local decisioning, and a globally distributed streaming architecture—no redeploys required. Over the past few weeks, the software industry has experienced multiple cloud outages that have caused widespread disruptions across hundreds of applications and services. When systems went down, the difference between chaos and continuity came down to architecture.

Harness AI October 2025 Updates: Smarter Pipelines, Instant Troubleshooting, and Memories

The AI Velocity Paradox is real. While teams are writing code faster than ever, they're hitting a wall downstream. Deployments are failing. Security vulnerabilities are slipping through. Manual toil is eating up whatever time developers saved with AI-assisted coding. The speed boost from one part of the software delivery lifecycle is being strangled by legacy processes in another. Harness is solving this the only way that works: by bringing intelligent AI deeper into the delivery process itself.

From rollouts to results: Unlocking the value of Feature Management and Experimentation

Unlock Faster, Safer Releases with Feature Management and Experimentation Learn how top engineering and product teams use Harness Feature Management & Experimentation (FME) to accelerate innovation, reduce release risks, and continuously deliver value. In this on-demand webinar, Harness experts Alex Bock and Iram Khan share how to go beyond feature flags to achieve smarter, data-driven releases. Discover how to.

You're Late to the OpenTofu Party. Here's Why That's a Problem.

OpenTofu has emerged as the true open successor to Terraform, restoring transparency and community ownership after Terraform’s shift to a restrictive BSL license. With features like OCI registries, encryption at rest, and a public RFC process, it’s already outpacing Terraform’s innovation.

The AI Knowledge Agent: Making Internal Developer Portals Smarter

AI is generating more code than ever, but delivery hasn’t kept pace. The Harness IDP Knowledge Agent helps teams close that gap by turning their internal developer portal into an intelligent platform for faster, safer software delivery. Joining a new engineering team can be exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. You spend the first few days figuring out what each service does, where documentation lives, and who owns what.

Running Chaos Engineering on GKE Autopilot Just Got Easier

Harness Chaos Engineering now runs natively on GKE Autopilot. A simple allowlist configuration enables you to test resilience on Google's managed Kubernetes without sacrificing security or requiring workarounds. Google's GKE Autopilot provides fully managed Kubernetes without the operational overhead of node management, security patches, or capacity planning. However, running chaos engineering experiments on Autopilot has been challenging due to its security restrictions. We've solved that problem.

Harness recognized as a top partner in software delivery success

We’re thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has once again been named to Inc.’s 2025 Power Partners list, recognizing companies that go above and beyond to help their customers succeed. This marks our second year in a row on the list — and while awards are always nice, this one feels special because it celebrates something deeper than technology. It’s about the relationships, trust, and collaboration that power real outcomes for our customers every day.

Harness patent for hybrid YAML editor enhances CI/CD workflows

Harness earned a patent for it's unified pipeline editor which makes it easy to configure pipelines whether they are for CI, CD, IaC, database migrations, service onboarding or other DevSecOps activities. ‍ We're thrilled to share some exciting news: Harness has been granted U.S. Patent US20230393818B2 (originally published as US20230393818A1) for our configuration file editor with an intelligent code-based interface and a visual interface.

Intent-Driven Assertions are Redefining How We Test Software

Traditional UI testing struggles to keep up with rapid design and workflow changes, often focusing on brittle selectors rather than user outcomes. Harness AI Test Automation introduces intent-driven, natural language assertions that understand what teams want to verify, not just how tests are written.