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Intent-Driven Assertions are Redefining How We Test Software

Traditional UI testing struggles to keep up with rapid design and workflow changes, often focusing on brittle selectors rather than user outcomes. Harness AI Test Automation introduces intent-driven, natural language assertions that understand what teams want to verify, not just how tests are written.

Enterprise data centre security solutions: scaling securely for growth and resilience

Securing a data centre requires multiple layers of protection. Physical access controls, surveillance, and network safeguards reinforce one another to prevent disruption. As estates expand and workloads increase, those measures have to scale. If they don’t, gaps appear in both resilience and compliance. A data centre security solution must therefore protect infrastructure day to day while adapting to future requirements. Pulsant delivers this through an integrated framework.
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The Product Manager's Nightmare: Seeing Features Too Late

Sarah stared at her laptop screen in disbelief. The feature her team had been building for three weeks was finally deployed to staging, and it looked nothing like what she had envisioned. The user interface was cramped, the workflow felt clunky, and the color scheme clashed with their brand guidelines. "Can we change the button placement?" she asked during the demo. "That'll require refactoring the entire component structure," replied the lead developer. "It's probably a two-day task now." What should have been a simple adjustment had become a major undertaking.

Part 2: Building a Production-Grade Traffic Capture, Transform and Replay System

When developers try to build realistic mocks and automated tests from production network traffic, the real challenge isn’t just in the capturing—it’s in the data manipulation. Raw traffic is a chaotic sea of patterns, dynamic tokens, environment-specific secrets, and tangled dependencies that seem impossible to untangle by hand. Over my two decades of building these sytems, I learned that solving this problem requires more than brute-force parsing or ad hoc scripts.

Streamline feature management with Harness MCP and Claude Code

Harness now supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Feature Management and Experimentation (FME), enabling developers to interact with feature flags directly from AI-powered IDEs like Claude Code and Windsurf. The FME MCP tools make it easier to explore, understand, and manage feature flags through natural language, streamlining delivery and release workflows without leaving your development environment.

Validating chaos experiments with GCP Cloud Monitoring probes

GCP Cloud Monitoring probe let you transform your existing GCP metrics into automated pass/fail validation for chaos experiments, eliminating subjective observation in favor of objective measurement. With flexible authentication options (workload identity or service account keys) and PromQL query support, you can validate infrastructure performance against defined thresholds during controlled failure scenarios.

The Right Way to Deliver Infrastructure: Every Deploy Comes with Guardrails

In fast-moving organizations, developers are expected to ship quickly. Infrastructure shouldn’t be a blocker, but it can’t become a liability either. One unchecked terraform apply, a missing tag, or a misconfigured instance can turn into a surprise bill, a failed audit, or even a production outage. The most reliable way to manage infrastructure at speed is to make governance part of the delivery process.

The sovereignty of the builder: Lessons from Civo Navigate London 2025

Digital sovereignty isn’t won in policy papers. It’s earned in production. That was the challenge issued by Civo CEO Mark Boost and Board Director Kelsey Hightower at Civo Navigate London 2025. They argued that the cloud's real failure lies not with the providers, but with the customers who refused to change. Catch up on the full fireside chat below The power shift is underway, moving from large vendors back to the practitioner.