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Dependency Firewall for Harness Artifact Registry

Harness Artifact Registry’s Dependency Firewall protects your software supply chain by enforcing security policies at the moment dependencies enter your environment. Instead of discovering risky packages later in the pipeline, Dependency Firewall evaluates every dependency at ingest using policy-as-code and blocks packages that violate security rules.

How to stop guessing where developer friction lives

Most platform teams know friction is a problem. They also struggle to figure out exactly where that friction lives. Developers lose time in ways that rarely show up on a roadmap. In many organizations, creating a new service can require multiple approvals and several Slack threads. Spinning up infrastructure can mean filing a ticket and waiting days. Onboarding to a new codebase involves a scavenger hunt through stale Confluence pages. None of these feel like emergencies in isolation.

How Techdome accelerates AI-led product delivery with Civo Kubernetes

Accessing cloud infrastructure shouldn’t slow down product innovation. Yet for many engineering teams building AI-driven platforms, traditional hyperscalers often introduce unnecessary complexity, high costs, and slow provisioning cycles. At Civo, we’ve seen a different approach emerge. Our cloud platform enables teams to move faster with Kubernetes, compute, and networking designed for simplicity and speed.

The data context gap: an evaluation guide for agent-ready infrastructure

Why do AI agents that look brilliant in a sandbox fail the moment they hit production? For platform leaders, the answer is a lack of environmental parity: the ability to interact with the exact data state and service topology where the actual bugs live. When an agent attempts to modify a schema, optimize a query, or reproduce a bug without access to the real-world data state, it hits the Data Context Gap.

Release software with confidence using Datadog Feature Flags

In this technical product demo, see how Datadog Feature Flags helps teams release software with confidence by connecting every feature flag to real-time observability data. Configure progressive, multi-step rollouts with automated guardrails tied to APM, RUM, and Product Analytics so you can pause or roll back instantly if latency, errors, or key business metrics degrade.

Smarter Postgres Monitoring: Compare Queries, Spot Unused Indexes, and Diagnose Waits

This is a guest post from Adrian Tan. Over recent months, we’ve been steadily improving PostgreSQL monitoring in Redgate Monitor, with a singular focus: to help Postgres users diagnose performance problems faster, with less manual investigation. The latest updates and new features tackle this problem in a few different ways.

Database Governance with OPA in Harness DB DevOps | Harness Blog

Harness Database DevOps integrates Open Policy Agent (OPA) to enforce database governance through policy as code. By embedding compliance rules directly into CI/CD pipelines, teams can automatically prevent risky database changes, maintain audit trails, and meet regulatory requirements without slowing down development. Database systems store some of the most sensitive data of an organization such as PII, financial records, and intellectual property, making strong database governance non-negotiable.

Making the Case for Vendor-Backed Puppet Core

Thousands of organizations rely on open source community builds for infrastructure automation. But if you're tasked with certifying, maintaining, and patching those builds yourself, you know the burden firsthand. The reality is that managing open source internally consumes time, introduces risk, and diverts resources from higher-value initiatives. When critical vulnerabilities emerge, your team scrambles to assess, test, and deploy fixes, all while keeping production environments stable.

GitKraken Explains: How AI is Changing Your Commit History

AI commit message generation is fast, accurate, and consistent. It's also missing the most important thing: the why. AI-assisted Git workflows can summarize a diff in seconds, but they optimize for description, not decision-making. In this video, we break down what AI commit messages do well, where they fall short, and how to use them without quietly erasing the context future teammates (and future you) actually need.

6 Underused Git Commands That Save Time

Git is full of underused powers that most developers never discover. In this GitKon 2025 session, GitKraken Senior Product Manager Jonathan Silva reveals 6 lesser-known Git commands that solve real workflow pain points, from recovering lost commits to managing stashes strategically. Learn how to undo commits without losing work, recover deleted branches with git reflog, cherry-pick without immediate commits, target specific stashes, see contributor breakdowns, and more. Jonathan also demonstrates how GitKraken Desktop makes these workflows visual and intuitive.