Chunk sidecars: CI Feedback Before the Push
Chunk sidecars give your agent CI-grade feedback in seconds. No push, no pipeline wait. Catch failures and fix them while the agent is still in context.
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Run CI Tests Without Pushing: Microbuilds with Chunk sidecars
AI coding agents write code faster than your pipeline can catch mistakes. What if the agent could validate against CI before you ever push? In this 5-minute demo, we set up CircleCI's Chunk CLI and run a microbuild using Chunk sidecars, secure Linux microVMs that spin up in ~1 second in your CircleCI account, mirror your working directory (no git push required), and give your agent CI-grade feedback while it's still in context.
Prevent container image overwrites with immutable tags in Bitbucket Packages
We’re excited to announce that immutable tags are now available for the Bitbucket Packages container registry. With immutable tags, workspace admins can set container image tags from being overwritten, moved, or modified after they’re first pushed.
Detecting Data Masking Gaps in a CI Pipeline | The Tony and Tonie show Ep46
Your schema changed. Did your masking rules keep up? Here’s how Flyway and Test Data Manager can catch gaps and prevent PII exposure in dev and test. Tony and Tonie discuss how Flyway and Redgate Test Data Manager can work together in a CI pipeline to detect schema changes that introduce unmasked sensitive columns, helping teams keep production-derived test data protected as the database evolves.
The skill gap AI can't close, with Hywel Carver of Skiller Whale
If 90% of code is now AI-generated, what happens to the engineers who never had to write it themselves? The ability to review code well, to catch what the LLM missed, depends on mental models that only come from practice. That tension sits at the center of this conversation.
Premium self-hosted runners are generally available
In December, we shared our plans to introduce pricing for self-hosted runners. You told us loud and clear that a free option matters. Today, as Premium Runners become generally available, we are happy to share that we will continue to have a free tier, which includes the use of up to 100 self-hosted runners as part of your plan. If your team needs more scale, dedicated support, or advanced management features, you can upgrade to Premium Runners when you’re ready.
Patterns of validation
This post covers some techniques to get agents to validate their work. We’ll cover why this is important, a variety of types of checks you can employ, and mechanisms you can use to enforce them.
BigQuery CI/CD and Database DevOps with Harness | Harness Blog
Modern data platforms are evolving rapidly, and Google Cloud BigQuery has become a core part of analytics, AI, and large-scale reporting architectures. Teams (including Harness) rely on BigQuery to process and analyze massive datasets, but managing schema changes in a secure, repeatable way can still be challenging.
Stop pushing broken code to CI: Wire Chunk sidecars into agent hooks
AI agents can write code faster than any developer. But for most teams, the feedback loop hasn’t kept pace. The agent generates code, pushes it to CI, and minutes later a full pipeline run catches a simple linting error or a failing unit test. By then the agent has moved on. Getting back to a working state means rebuilding context from scratch and burning tokens just to fix something that should never have shipped in the first place.
Agents Could Kill Overhiring
Cloud killed the overprovisioned server rack. Agents might do the same thing for engineering teams.