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Deployment of AWS Step Functions with Lambda and CircleCI

In this guide, you will build and deploy a serverless data processing workflow using AWS Step Functions and AWS Lambda. This approach enables you to orchestrate discrete processing tasks in a scalable and cost-efficient way, leveraging the event-driven architecture that AWS offers. You will begin by creating individual Lambda functions that handle specific tasks in your data pipeline.

New in Flyway: Pre and post deployment scripts for state-based deployments via callbacks

Flyway provides a lot of flexibility for releasing database changes in a safe and repeatable manner. Earlier this year, we added the ability to automate state-based deployments. This means the structure of the database is defined in version control and Flyway handles updating a target database to match it. The Flyway comparison engine does all the hard work of identifying what’s different and creating a script that will run on the target database to alter it so it matches the latest state.

Building community-first brands ft. Edreece Arghandiwal, CMO & Co-Founder of Oakland Roots SC

In this special episode of The Confident Commit, Rob Zuber sits down with Edreece Arghandiwal, CMO and Co-Founder of Oakland Roots Soccer Club, for an inspiring conversation about building purpose-driven organizations from the ground up. Edreece shares how the Roots challenged traditional sports business models by putting community first, turning a simple question—"Why isn't there professional soccer in Oakland?"—into a movement that raised $3.5 million from 6,000+ community investors with zero paid advertising.

AI-Powered Chaos Engineering with Harness MCP Server and Cursor

The Harness MCP Server integration with Cursor transforms chaos engineering from a complex, specialized discipline into an accessible, conversational workflow that any developer can leverage directly within their AI-powered IDE. By combining natural language prompts with comprehensive resilience testing tools, teams can discover, execute, and analyze chaos experiments without vendor-specific expertise, democratizing system reliability across DevOps, QA, and SRE functions.

Harness GitOps: Scaling Argo CD with Enterprise-Grade Control

Harness GitOps extends Argo CD by preserving its reconciliation loop while adding governance, audit, and RBAC through the GitOps Agent’s secure connection to Harness SaaS. Teams can choose Harness-managed or bring-your-own Argo CD and scale to multi-cluster fleets with unified dashboards, promotion pipelines, and true rollback, while Git stays the single source of truth.

My Criteria for Automated Incident Response Tools

Managing incidents manually isn’t realistic when their number keeps growing. That’s where automated incident response tools come in. They handle routine tasks so you can focus on actual problem-solving. In this blog, I’ve put together a list of the 9 best automated incident response tools for you. I looked at each one based on four key areas of the incident response process. This will help you see how they handle everything from start to finish.

Streamline Software Delivery Right From Your IDE with Amazon Kiro and Harness

The integration of Amazon Kiro and Harness’s MCP server enables developers to manage, troubleshoot, and optimize CI/CD pipelines directly from their IDE using natural language, dramatically reducing manual effort and accelerating software delivery from code generation to production.

Global Online Meetup: K3k

Even though multi-tenancy isn't a new concept, when it comes to Kubernetes, implementing the concept can come with its own set of challenges - noisy neighbours, operational complexities, and, of course, security considerations. Sounds like a lot? Well, that's why it's essential to strike a balance between flexibility and optimising resource utilisation. Join Divya Mohan at 2 PM UTC on 25th September as she hosts Rossella Sblendido and Jean-Phillipe Gouin to explore how the K3k project from SUSE helps us achieve all this and more in this edition of the Global Online Meetup.

Why Security Must Include Cost Accountability In The Cloud

A SaaS team once spotted their first breach not in a SIEM dashboard, but in their AWS bill. Their compute costs spiked by 400% overnight. Turns out, an attacker had spun up dozens of high-powered instances for crypto mining. Logs eventually confirmed the intrusion, but the cost anomaly was the first signal that something was wrong. This incident isn’t unusual. Cloud costs often reflect consumption, but they can also reflect compromise.

Monitor Kubernetes Hosts with OpenTelemetry

It’s 3 AM. API latency just spiked from 200ms to 2s. Alerts are firing, and users are frustrated. You SSH into the first server: top, free -h, iostat — nothing unusual. On to the next host. And the next. That’s how most of us learned to debug. The tools worked, and we got good at using them. But as infrastructure became distributed and dynamic, this approach started to break down. Modern monitoring needs more than SSH and top. It needs unified telemetry.