World News – AU – Harness delivers continuous enterprise integration on the heels of an io drone acquisition

In August, Harness made its first acquisition by purchasing Drone, an open source continuous integration startup. The company wasted no time building on this purchase, announcing today’ hui a new business continuous integration tool to support the open source project that Drone has built

The Harness software development platform consists of various modules, and the last one facilitates continuous integration, which is the process of building and testing that occurs before developers start to deploy their code changes.

Drone is continuous integration software It helps developers to continuously create, test and deploy their code The project was launched in 2012 and it was the first cloud and container native continuous integration solution on the market, and we have it open source

Bansal indicated at the time of the acquisition that they wanted to build on this open-source project and provide a commercial enterprise version, while continuing to support the open-source project

« This is truly the first product in the industry to integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning into the optimization of the build and test process, » Bansal said. This layer of intelligence is what makes it separates from the open source version of the software, and the idea is to use machine learning to speed up the build and test process

The company is also announcing a new module around the management of feature indicators These are elements that developers leave in the code to limit the deployment of the software, allowing them to see how the update works before deploying it with the user base as a whole The problem is that these flags proliferate, they become difficult to manage and the new module is designed to help developers understand and control the flags that exist in their code.

Bansal says his goal for the company was to make the kind of automated software delivery pipeline available to every developer in the world’s largest tech companies.

« [Our goal] is that every business in the world can have the same level of sophistication in delivering software as Google, Amazon or Facebook, » Bansal said

Bansal founded AppDynamics, a company he sold to Cisco in 2017 for $ 3.7 billion He launched Harness later that same year The company raised nearly $ 80 million on a valuation of $ 500 million , according to PitchBook data

Bansal also launched venture capital firm Unusual Ventures in 2018, and as if it didn’t have enough to do, it launched its third startup, Traceable, a security firm, in July.

DevOps, Continuous Integration, System Integration, CI / CD, Continuous Delivery, Cloud Computing, Software Testing