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How to Scale Sandbox Environments with an Internal Developer Portal | Harness Blog

Here's a scenario that probably sounds familiar: a developer needs a sandbox environment to test something. They file a ticket. Then they wait. And wait. Maybe a day goes by, maybe three. Meanwhile, your platform team is buried in provisioning requests, and somewhere, someone has already spun up an unsanctioned workaround that bypasses every governance policy you've put in place. It's a lose-lose. Developers lose velocity, platform teams lose their sanity, and security gaps quietly multiply.

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.

Building an Alert Routing setup that never misses a critical incident

Critical incidents have a direct impact on your business revenue and the trust your customers place in you. The longer a critical incident goes unnoticed, the higher the stakes. A reliable alert routing setup automatically catches these incidents the moment they trigger and gets them to the right person without delay. This guide walks you through how to build that reliable routing setup.

How to handle midnight incidents without waking everyone up

When a midnight incident triggers, the goal is not to wake your entire team. It’s to reach the one person who can act on it. Everyone else should sleep through it undisturbed. The difference between a team that handles midnight incidents well and one that doesn’t usually comes down to a few decisions made ahead of time. Which incidents actually need a midnight response? Who should get the call? And what should happen to everything else? This guide walks through those decisions.

Routing incidents the way their severity and priority demand

Severity and priority are two labels that describe different things about an incident. Severity covers the blast radius: how much of your system or how many customers are affected. Priority covers the urgency: how quickly someone needs to act. Routing rules then use these labels to load the right escalation policy for each incident. This guide covers how to define your severity and priority levels and map them to escalation policies.

Mastering Microsoft Azure Certification Preparation with Reliable Study Resources

The demand for cloud computing professionals has surged dramatically in recent years, and Microsoft Azure stands out as one of the leading cloud platforms globally. Whether you are a beginner stepping into the IT world or an experienced professional aiming to validate your skills, Azure certifications like AZ-900 and AZ-500 play a crucial role in enhancing your career prospects. Preparing for these exams requires not only dedication but also access to high-quality study materials and reliable practice resources. This is where platforms like Exam-Labs.com become valuable for candidates seeking structured and effective preparation strategies.