Harness on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/harness/Recent content in Harness on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:42:50 +0000The 71% AI Cost Cut Hiding in Your Harnesshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-founders/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:42:50 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-founders/A Berkeley study finds the right &ldquo;harness&rdquo; - the control layer around an AI agent - can cut the cost of the same result by 71% with no accuracy loss, making the harness the primary lever on AI unit economics. Elsewhere: cap-table startup Pulley shutters after raising $50M+, with customers directed to rival Carta; OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents that let users interrogate an ad before visiting your site; and Column ships four new products that collapse global fintech integration into a few API calls. Plus HubSpot&rsquo;s year of AI search experiments and the Zapier CEO&rsquo;s headless tools thesis.Salesforce stumbles, Kubernetes gets pod-level resource control, and the cost of your coding agent's harnesshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-devops/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:45:55 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-09-18-devops/Salesforce spent hours stumbling through a global outage that stalled requests on an internal login service and exhausted server resources across hundreds of instances. Kubernetes v1.37 graduates Pod-Level Resource Managers to Beta, letting the Kubelet place hardware based on pod-level declarations so sidecars stop wasting dedicated NUMA-aligned cores. A new analysis across 21 model-harness combinations on SWE-bench Lite and Terminal-Bench 2.0 found harness choice changes cost by up to 5x, and the model vendor&rsquo;s own harness is not always the cheapest. OpenBao gets a fully open-source secrets backend on Kubernetes with CloudNativePG, using TLS certificate auth and synchronous replication. Cloudflare adds four granular roles for Workers so agents and teammates get least-privilege access to individual applications.Cloudflare sheds 100 TB from 1.1.1.1, Kubernetes 1.37 ships, Grafana adds shared saved querieshttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-devops/Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:39:22 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-08-28-devops/Cloudflare cut 100 TB of RAM from its 1.1.1.1 DNS fleet by trimming per-entry cache size from 953 to 420 bytes across 250 billion entries, also boosting insert throughput 43% and cutting lookup latency 19%. Kubernetes 1.37 &ldquo;Garhwal&rdquo; landed with 67 enhancements, including the metrics.k8s.io API finally going Stable after nine years in Beta and HPA scale-to-zero reaching Beta. Grafana 13.2 made saved queries GA with RBAC, search, and Terraform provisioning. Harness, Datadog, and Google Cloud all published pieces arguing that the next platform problem isn&rsquo;t code or compute, but governance for AI agents. DigitalOcean launched v5 Droplets on 5th Gen EPYC with per-resource billing, and Tailscale released Tailcat, a netcat-style tool that rides its WireGuard data plane without needing an account.