Case Study: DataStax reduces deployment troubleshooting by 98% with Harness

Datastax Selected Harness over Spinnaker for CI/CD

DataStax, the company behind the cloud-native NoSQL data platform built on Apache Cassandra, needed a better way to support self-service feature branching for its Astra engineering teams. After running and managing Spinnaker for continuous delivery, the team found the operational overhead unworkable, debugging deployments was slow, and onboarding new services could take hours.

Harness provided Continuous Delivery and GitOps capabilities that let DataStax manage deployments as code, speed up onboarding, and reduce platform maintenance. With Harness, DataStax cut deployment troubleshooting from about an hour to under a minute, reduced engineering toil by 20–30%, shortened new service onboarding from hours to minutes, and accelerated canary and rollback implementation from weeks to days.

DataStax

Frank Moley

Engineering Manager