Container sprawl is the new VM sprawl. With all of these containers, we need a solution to help run containers at scale. Welcome to Kubernetes!
The cliche saying that container sprawl is the new virtual machine sprawl proves to be very true. Compared to physical servers, when folks started to migrate to VMs, spinning up a VM was much quicker than procuring a. […]
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Kicking off our first part of a six-part series, we at Harness will help you become a sharp knife in the Kubernetes world. As more organizations go through the container revolution, let’s take a holistic look at the. […]
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The rise in meal prepping or getting pre-prepared meals delivered to one’s home has been on the rise. As software engineers we prep in a similar fashion. We build images in one of our favorite container formats let. […]
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Serverless infrastructure has been gaining popularity in recent years ushering in the next generation of right-sizing infrastructure per user request. Serverless function invocations typically are 1:1 for user requests. Though in recent years thanks to technology like Step. […]
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You have a real interest in Continuous Delivery, but you don’t have a clue as to what all the terms and concepts mean. Neither did I before joining Harness. Lucky for both of us, this article is designed. […]
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About Nutanix Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business. Migrating to Kubernetes on Google Cloud The. […]
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LinkedIn says there are 25,000 DevOps engineers in the United States and just over 66,000 globally. With 28 million small businesses in the US (Google) and approximately 200 million on the planet, how can every business be a. […]
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Linus Torvald, one of the godfathers of Linux, after some source code management shakeup on the platform hosting certain Linux projects, wanted a better way for source code management for Linux projects. Thus, GIT was born in 2005.. […]
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The Strangler Pattern made famous by Martin Fowler describes how software evolves in our enterprise — though this observation can also made with reference to the platforms and pipelines that support our applications. Evolution, Revolution, and the Past. […]
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DELIVER APPS to Kubernetes without Modern-day Continuous Delivery can be Complexity Building pipelines & deploying microservies with dependenncies takes forever. Need for Speed Weekly releases are not enough. Devs Want Control “Give me the power to release on. […]
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Last year, we proudly announced our integration support for AppDynamics via our service impact verification feature. This integration meant that customers who were using both Harness and AppDynamics could leverage Harness for their continuous-delivery (CD) pipelines and —. […]
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The latest title of greatness in an organization with the rise of the Full LifeCycle developer is the DevOpsPlatformCICDCloudInfraAPMLogML-Engineer. Trending on Indeed, DevOpsPlatformCICDCloudInfraAPMLogML-Engineer’s or Unicorn-Eng for short are in high demand and Unicorn-Eng Days are sprouting up all. […]
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About Ruckus Networks Ruckus Networks is redefining connectivity by bridging the digital divide and connecting people around the world. Ruckus works with channel partners, OEMs, and strategic partners to deliver ubiquitous connectivity with our access points, switches, and. […]
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What is an Audit Trail? Audit trails are electronic records that chronologically catalog events related to operational procedure or change. In the context of Continuous Delivery, it’s basically the who, what and when of all activity relating to. […]
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Like many companies, Harness started out with a minimal set of deployment environments. When we launched our first production application we had three – a continuous integration environment, quality assurance, and production itself. Every change made by a. […]
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Over the past decade, PagerDuty has become the defacto standard for waking up notifying developers and DevOps teams of incidents relating to their applications or services. Just over a month ago the company went public and cited 11,000. […]
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Today, the CI/CD market has roughly 35+ vendors all claiming to do the same thing. In fact, some of these vendors will sell you lunch if you strongly believe that every developer needs lunch in order to deliver. […]
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Stackdriver is a popular monitoring tool that was acquired by Google in 2014 for observing performance and diagnostic data for services running in Google Cloud Compute (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes environments. Stackdriver aggregates metrics, logs,. […]
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Helm has become a widely popular way to package, distribute and manage Kubernetes Applications. At Harness, we see an increasing number of our customers are already using Helm and the usages are varied. In this post, we talk. […]
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We all know that software is becoming modularized into microservices, but what do we call the teams that are restructuring themselves around these microservices? Jeff Bezos called it a pizza team, but I think I have a better. […]
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Kubernetes is ruling the container orchestration world. It’s a truly portable system that has powerful capabilities for deploying, scaling and managing containerized applications. It is an interesting space to look into and becomes even more if you add. […]
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It’s been exactly one month since joining Harness and learning about the CI/CD space. I have an extensive background in software development and over half a decade of experience in delivering products to the enterprise IT space. I’ve. […]
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Yesterday we announced our series B funding with IVP, Google, and ServiceNow all contributing to the round. As you might expect, Google and ServiceNow both play critical roles in CI/CD, specifically around cloud/container orchestration and change management. Back. […]
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Today is a big milestone day for us at Harness. We’re excited to announce our $60 million Series B round led by IVP, as well as two strategic investors – GV and ServiceNow Ventures, and with participation from. […]
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Today we announced that Harness is now part of the AWS marketplace giving AWS customers the ability to empower their developers with Continuous Delivery as-a-Service across their AWS applications and environments. Over 50% of Harness customers currently run their. […]
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Our goal at Harness is to enable our customers to deploy their software as fast as possible. Our customers love us for the ease with which they can confidently deploy their code to production using Harness. We take. […]
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Why Blue/Green Deployments With hardware becoming more and more cost-effective, Blue/Green deployments are becoming common. Blue/Green deployments allow customers to validate an entirely new version of an application without disturbing production traffic at all. In Blue/Green deployments, two. […]
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What is a Deployment Pipeline? A deployment pipeline is basically an automated process where software artifacts are promoted and verified across one or more environments (stages) to ensure they are ready for delivery to end-users (customers). Probably one. […]
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Over the past 4-6 weeks, we’ve shipped some major and minor updates to Harness. Harness uses Harness internally so we can push daily updates to our SaaS and on-premises customers. We’re doing around 1,500 deployments a month across. […]
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In 2018 Harness shipped 24 major platform integrations for our customers, from Microsoft Azure to HashiCorp Terraform to Datadog. Today, we have over 40 different integrations to enable end-to-end Continuous Delivery across your apps, clouds, tech stacks, and. […]
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‘Twas a cold day in December, all white and shivery And teams everywhere tried to solve Continuous Delivery. They said: “Jenkins works just fine for CI, but for crying out loud Why is it so hard to deliver. […]
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When Harness came out of stealth, we entered the Continuous Delivery market with several unique capabilities. Our Smart Automation helped customers build deployment pipelines in minutes, and our Continuous Verification helped developers automate the verification and rollback of. […]
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#1: DevOps Wars DevOps engineers will divide into two sides — the dark side and the light side. The dark side will operate solely using the force of YAML, GitOps, and configuration-as-code, whereas the light side will embrace. […]
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Being a Continuous Delivery (CD) vendor, it’s a bit hypocritical if we didn’t practice CD ourselves for our customers. November’s velocity was slightly down to 1,600 deployments due to Thanksgiving in the US (see red circle below): It’s. […]
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Openbank, the digital bank of Santander Group, has one of the most complete, flexible, and agile digital banking platforms in the sector. It’s one of the first banks in the world to use a cloud-based IT infrastructure and. […]
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Recently, the Harness team accepted an invite to the Spinnaker Summit in Seattle. Spinnaker has great awareness among Continuous Delivery practitioners, and it was terrific to get a chance to meet the people behind Spinnaker as well as. […]
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It’s just over a year since Harness came out of stealth. In that time, we’ve created multi-cloud support for our Continuous Delivery platform across AWS, GCP, PCF, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. Today is the final major piece of that puzzle. […]
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Problem Statement Showcase the time series machine learning model accuracy for canary analysis of deployments. Model Given 2 time series of equal length and sampled at the same frequency, detect the following: They are similar if the time. […]
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Everyone is doing CI/CD these days. If you attend any DevOps conference you’ll notice two things — 1.) Lots of teams claiming to do ten billion deployments a day and 2.) Lots of vendors claiming to help enable ten billion. […]
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Problem Statement Showcase the time series machine learning model for canary analysis. Model Given 2 time series of equal length (e.g. canary phases) and sampled at the same frequency, detect the following: They are similar if the time. […]
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Infrastructure automation (aka provisioning) is a big deal for cloud-native applications and environments. Automating the provisioning and decommissioning of infrastructure allows you to scale up and down on-the-fly while reaping the cost benefits of on-demand compute. By integrating. […]
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About GoSpotCheck GoSpotCheck’s real-time execution management platform empowers field teams to collect merchandising, sales, and compliance data — in addition to completing tasks in the field. CI/CD Before Harness Deployment pipelines in the past were scripted using CircleCI. […]
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When we first launched Harness back in October 2017, one of our initial challenges was educating the market on the difference between Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) solutions. At that time, I wrote a quick comparison blog. […]
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This is an engineer’s perspective. Let’s start with a simplified architecture overview of Harness workflow engine which is relevant to this topic. Overview Harness has a key component called Manager which is responsible for orchestrating pipeline and workflow. […]
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What is Bugsnag? In short, Bugsnag analyzes events from application run-times, specifically errors and exceptions so you can debug stacktraces in seconds. Think of it as application reliability or stability monitoring. Data collection is less wide than the. […]
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What is OpenShift? Red Hat® OpenShift® is a comprehensive enterprise-grade application platform, built for containers with Kubernetes. For customers who invested in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it’s an easy way for them to run and manage their container-based. […]
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“Just stick your app in a container and deploy it — its super easy, fast, scalable and portable” said everyone two years ago. Turns out deploying microservices in containers isn’t as easy as we first thought. “No problem,. […]
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At Harness we’re often asked, “What is the best practice for enabling Continuous Delivery across an organization?” Naturally, our response is: “Fire anyone who still does waterfall and immediately hire 10 DevOps engineers.” (I’m joking. Hiring 10 DevOps engineers. […]
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Taking scripts away from a DevOps engineer is a bit like taking expenses away from a sales rep; Defcon 1 is just around the corner. At Harness, we’re trying to simplify Continuous Delivery so that developers and DevOps. […]
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Deploying to production is a bit like dancing drunk in a dive bar. You have to do it, but it’s all about avoiding collateral damage (and downtime) at the end of the day. There are many deployment strategies. […]
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Our engineering team has been getting ship done the past six weeks during May and June. Being a Continuous Delivery vendor, we’ve done roughly 1,900 deployments the past 30 days and have kept our velocity up while onboarding. […]
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Last week, AppDynamics announced a new partnership with Harness to help customers embrace continuous delivery and understand the business impact of every application deployment. Our integration at that time focused on the deployment and verification of specific application. […]
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Over the past year, I’ve talked Continuous Delivery with hundreds of teams around the world. I’ve also observed 50+ different deployment processes when customers have been kind enough to show me their current methodology and tooling. Now comes. […]
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It’s been a crazy 6 months since we came out of stealth. The Harness development team has grown to 25 engineers, and our platform support has evolved from Linux, Bare Metal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform. […]
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The most requested monitoring integrations from customers over the past year were: AppDynamics, New Relic, Dynatrace, and Datadog. Fifth most popular was Prometheus, the open-source software (OSS) project. Unlike Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software which has its own. […]
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These days, it’s not uncommon for customers to use Cloud or infrastructure monitoring software across their dev, QA and production environments. Back in February, we announced support for Dynatrace to accompany our AppDynamics and New Relic APM support. Today, our. […]
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As good as Kuberenetes is, it’s not a magical silver bullet. Applications today are as complex as they have ever been. Despite the buzz around independent microservices, most architectures and services have many dependencies. Helm allows you to package. […]
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Most organizations today are looking to break up their ‘vintage’ monolithic applications as they start to pursue Cloud, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. In some respects migrating to a microservices architecture is a pre-requisite for those initiatives. This blog. […]
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Analyzing Application Log Data With Harness For the past 10 months at Harness, we have been analyzing application log events to help customers detect anomalies and verify their production deployments. To do this our algorithms have been based. […]
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Below is a report of our own Continuous Delivery process over the past 30 days. We did 901 deployments (roughly 30/day) and 17% are failing, meaning we’re catching lots of defects/bugs before our code is pushed into production for. […]
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When one works in technology, it’s easy to assume these days that everything in life is built using Docker and Kubernetes. If you step outside our little tech-bubble world, though, there are actually quite a few examples of. […]
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Back in October last year, I published a blog around how Harness uses machine learning to auto-verify deployments by analyzing time-series metrics from APM solutions such as AppDynamics, New Relic, and Dynatrace, and also unstructured events from log. […]
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You wouldn’t build your own Jenkins – would you? Neither would you build your own CRM, Office or Email service. So why are the “cool” DevOps kids still building their own continuous delivery scripts, log analytics, and monitoring. […]
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Teammate: “Hey, what’s the login for that new tool we bought?” You: “Try admin/admin” Sound familiar? This may work fine for your monitoring tool, but it ain’t going to work for Continuous Delivery (CD) as-a-service across your organization. . […]
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Let’s face it–in 2018, it’s very uncool for any new hip tech startup to ship an on-premises version of their product. It’s a bit like Justin Bieber selling CDs or vinyl for his millennial following. Enterprises Still Require. […]
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One thing I hope you’ll never hear from anyone at Harness is this piece of vendor baloney: “If you purchase Harness, you’ll be unstoppable in your DevOps journey.” The team at Harness knows that vendors don’t create a. […]
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Kubernetes describes itself as “an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.” At face value, those descriptors are pretty broad and bad ass. You could be forgiven for thinking all you need these days for. […]
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In 2018, it’s no longer enough to have an amazingly simple, intuitive, and beautiful user interface. Configuration-as-code is the new user developer experience and it’s a mandatory feature, especially for selling to DevOps teams. So, without further ado, I’m. […]
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These days, it’s not uncommon for customers to use Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software across their dev, QA and production environments. A few weeks ago a large FS enterprise customer evaluated Harness for Continuous Delivery (CD) and said:. […]
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I attended my first DevOps Days event in Mountain View in 2011 (Fri & Sat morning) as a vendor. All I remember was John Willis doing his “State of DevOps” intro followed by various sessions on packaging, orchestration,. […]
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Updated: July 30th 2018 Spinnaker and Harness are two names that come up frequently when talking about Continuous Delivery. Truth is, competition and choice is a great thing for customers. It’s also a good thing for vendors too. […]
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You might hear terms like “blue/green” and “canary” when it comes to the final act of deploying code in production. Pushing the deployment button these days is a bit like playing craps; you roll the dice and it’s. […]
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This blog came at the request of several customers who found our story compelling, but wanted to share it with a wider audience inside their organization including team members who use Jenkins. I’ll start by saying this: at. […]
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No matter how sound the plan, sometimes its always good to look at the results. I thought I’d do a bit of research to try and quantify the impact that DevOps initatives had in 2017. I’ve tried to. […]
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You’ve just deployed a new version of your service/app into production. You open your web browser and hit the live version in production. All looks well – or does it? You open Slack and post a question to. […]
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Even though Harness isn’t GA yet, we’re very fortunate to have several paying customers and partners. One of which is Build.com, who kindly shared a success story last week around how Harness is helping them move fast (in. […]
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Its the role, and quite frankly, the duty, of every DevOps vendor to create a visual one-off masterpiece that represents the DevOps tools landscape. XebiaLabs created its Periodic Table, CA created a tube map, and today I give. […]
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A few weeks back I got an email from Alan Shimel, the founder of DevOps.com, with the great news that Harness is a finalist in the awards category “Best New DevOps Solution Company.” This category is judged by. […]
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When we built AppDynamics almost ten years ago, the APM market laughed at us. “No way, heard all these claims before” — “You can’t do that, it’s cheating” — “BS, no way you can monitor production in 4. […]
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The recent news about uber being hacked was due to application source code containing unencrypted username/password information (which happened to be shared & stored on Github). It’s easy to be cynical about this breach but managing secrets across applications, environments. […]
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Continuous Delivery Pre-requisites Like anything in business, not everything can be solved with technology alone. Going from quarterly/monthly deployments to daily/hourly deployments isn’t just about automation. Your application architecture(s) and team(s) must be able to support the fundamentals. […]
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If you’re curious to see Harness up close and personal, above and beyond what you see on our amazing web site and Spielberg-level videos, please come and hang out with the Harness team at AWS: ReInvent from November. […]
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The first rule of being a software vendor? “Practice what you preach.” It’s a bit hypocritical to expect customers to buy your product if you’re not using it internally to solve the same real-world problems that they are. […]
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AWS Lambda is a web service you can use to build applications without having to worry about compute constraints or complexity. In order to use, simply upload your application code as Lambda functions and Lambda runs your code. […]
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Interested in turning your deployment canary into a cybernetic living organism? Awesome, this blog is for you. I’m guessing you’re probably thinking two things right now: Why would you want to apply ML to CD? How can you. […]
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Build.com is a pure-play internet retailer, ranked # 2 in the home improvement market behind Home Depot. As an eCommerce site, Build.com has the need to address issues quickly and without interruptions to customers. The CI/CD Initiative Approximately three years. […]
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