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Learn these 4 Chaos Engineering Principles Before You Break Anything | Resilience Testing | Harness

Want to start chaos engineering? Don't randomly break stuff and hope for the best. Real chaos engineering starts with defining your system's steady state metrics like latency, throughput, and error rates. Then you form a clear hypothesis about what should happen when failures occur. Next, you inject controlled failures, starting small with single pod kills or network drops, not production meltdowns. Finally, you limit the blast radius by running experiments in safe environments first.

Harness Lives Inside Cursor Now - Plus Everything Else That Shipped in April

April was a big month at Harness. AI is changing how code gets written — and the rest of the SDLC is catching up. In this update, Dewan Ahmed walks through Harness product releases across three themes: AI in the developer workflow, security and governance for AI assets, and self-service maturity for developers and platform teams. What's covered (with timestamps): Found this useful? Subscribe for monthly product updates, and drop a comment telling us which release you want a deep dive on next.

What is an ASN? Understanding the backbone of the Internet

Using the internet often feels effortless when clicking a link or joining a call, but behind that simplicity lies a highly structured system that ensures data moves efficiently across the globe. One of the key building blocks of this system is the Autonomous System Number (ASN).

Moving Beyond SolarWinds: A Guide to Modern Observability

Industry-leading observability experts provide strategic guidance on why and how modern IT teams are successfully moving beyond SolarWinds to more resilient, cloud-native platforms. IT teams running SolarWinds often know the pain points well before they start evaluating alternatives: separate modules for different monitoring needs, a self-hosted deployment model that requires ongoing maintenance, and pricing that gets harder to predict after each acquisition.

How to Monitor Your Node.js App on Hetzner with AppSignal

More and more developers are choosing self-hosting over traditional PaaS. At first, self-hosting may seem like unnecessary heavy lifting, especially when you can deploy as fast as creating a repo. However, with correct tooling, it’s easy to see why devs are moving away from PaaS. You get dedicated resources and (if needed) a European data center at a fraction of the cost.

A Guide to 400G Connectivity

Ready to scale beyond 100G? Learn why 400G is on the rise, when to use it, and how to deploy it. Network traffic is growing exponentially. Cloud adoption, AI, large-scale data replication, video streaming, and generative applications are all drivers, and enterprises with traditional connectivity setups may find themselves struggling to keep up. Enter 400-gigabit Ethernet (400G): a high-capacity, scalable networking standard that enables you to build faster and more cost-efficient networks at scale.

What is alert fatigue? (And how does it happen)

Alert fatigue doesn’t announce itself. It builds quietly over weeks and months until one day a critical incident triggers and nobody responds with the urgency it deserves. By that point, the damage is already done. This guide walks through what alert fatigue actually is, how it happens, and what you can do about it.

How to Evaluate Fraud Insurance Providers

Billions of dollars are lost each year to financial fraud. Scam tactics have become more sophisticated, and hence the losses they cause can be massive. Dedicated fraud insurance isn't optional anymore. It's necessary for anyone serious about financial protection. That said, choosing the best online fraud insurance is rarely simple. Coverage structures, claim workflows, and reimbursement caps vary significantly. A thorough evaluation before signing any policy is how you can prevent costly surprises when fraud actually happens.