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Recorded at @DevOpsLive Most teams have “done DevOps” and “built a platform,” but still wrestle with the same core problems: platforms that developers dodge, AI that accelerates coding while quietly degrading delivery performance, security and compliance that can’t keep up, cloud bills that keep climbing, and incident response that hasn’t caught up with cloud‑native complexity.

In this episode of "ShipTalk: Engineering Excellence," host Thomas Dockstader sits down with Ron Miller, editor at Fast Forward, to discuss the real-world impact of AI on software development. They dive deep into the maturity of AI-driven code, the rise of the "citizen developer," and why traditional writing and communication skills are becoming the new must-have for modern engineers.

Load testing and stress testing are two important parts of performance testing, but they serve very different purposes. Load testing checks how your application behaves when many users access it at the same time under normal or expected conditions. It helps you understand if your system can handle real-world traffic smoothly without slowing down.

Discover how leading engineering teams proactively build rock-solid applications using Chaos Engineering. Learn why waiting for real outages is risky and how intentionally injecting controlled failures like pod crashes, network latency, and node restarts helps uncover hidden weaknesses before they impact your users. In this short, explore the simple yet powerful practice that turns fragile systems into resilient ones and how Harness makes running chaos experiments effortless and safe with its intuitive Resilience Testing module.

Learn how to enable self-service environments with an internal developer portal (IDP) and CI/CD automation. You’ve automated deployments with Harness CD, but what about the environments those deployments run on? In this quick demo, see how Harness Environment Management completes the picture by making environments self-service, standardized, and fully lifecycle-managed. Together, CD + Environment Management close the loop on modern software delivery.

Learn the clear difference between performance testing and load testing in this quick video. Performance testing checks how well your software works under different conditions like speed, stability, and scalability. Load testing focuses only on how the system handles expected user traffic. If you want to build reliable applications, knowing these two helps you test smarter. Perfect for developers, testers, and QA teams.

AI coding assistants help you ship code faster, but where do the bottlenecks go? They move downstream: into security, deployment, and cost controls. In this short video, Dewan Ahmed highlights how Harness’s March updates deliver closed-loop AI velocity by targeting those downstream stages.

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.

What happens when things suddenly break in your system? In this short video, we explain disaster recovery testing in simple terms. Learn why it matters, how it helps you stay prepared, and how you can make sure your system gets back up quickly when something goes wrong. Watch to understand the basics in under a minute.

Harness AI understands GitOps entities and can detect misconfigurations in manifests, identify missing dependencies or clusters, diagnose connectivity issues, and suggest fixes in context. With the expansion of the "Ask AI" assistant into GitOps, teams can troubleshoot issues directly where they occur, not after the fact.​