April 2026
Elena Verna on AI growth: Automate the basics, elevate the creative
The former growth leader at Dropbox, Miro, and Amplitude on using AI to automate the basics — so humans can focus on the creative work that actually matters.
Merge Queues for Bitbucket Cloud, now in open beta
Teams are shipping more code, faster than ever, as they increasingly automate their processes with CI/CD and AI. But high-velocity pull-request workflows and large monorepos, where many PRs are merged continuously, are feeling the pain as they grow: pull requests race to merge before the branch changes again, “green” builds still break due to semantic […]
Rovo Dev in Frontend Platform Engineering – AI for small tasks, AI for big tasks
Rovo Dev can help a lot with many common platform tasks – one of them which I have stumbled upon most recently is migration from library A → library B (outdated styled-components to Compiled css-in-js). For migration-type of tasks the execution can take significant amount of time, despite the work being quite repetitive (however nuanced […]
Streaming Server-Side Rendering in Confluence
Over the past two years the Confluence team has spent a significant amount of time investing into improving performance – halving the 90th percentile latency for completing page loads https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-articles/Confluence-Performance-Journey-2x-Faster-in-1-Year/ba-p/3097191. One of the big change we have made in the last 12 months has been to introduce React’s new streaming capabilities for server-side rendered (SSR) […]
Enhancing Developer Workflow with Rovo Dev and Notifications
Why notifications matter for flow Context switching has always been the bane of software engineers, and deep work dies by a thousand paper cuts, such as waiting on long-running tasks, tool permissions, or test runs nudging you to alt-tab. This has become even more prelevant in the age of AI assisted coding. Notifications Timely, relevant […]
Introducing Agentic Pipelines: AI automation for chores devs don’t want to do
Bitbucket Pipelines has always been an engine for automating more than just CI/CD, but today, Pipelines takes a first step towards a full agentic automation platform for all the manual, tedious, repetitive work that happens before and after code creation. You’ve probably seen the stat: Development teams spend 84% of their day doing things other […]
Bitbucket Packages now supports Maven and npm
Few months back we launched Bitbucket Packages with a native container registry, giving teams a way to manage container images right alongside their code and pipelines. Today, we’re expanding that functionality and now Bitbucket Packages support Maven and Node Package Manager (npm), bringing JavaScript and Java package management into the same platform where your team already […]
Behind the scenes of Atlassian’s AI Builders Week
At Atlassian, we are often asked how we are adapting internally to AI and transforming our R&D organization to be AI native. One lever we have used successfully is an event we call AI Builders Week. Each quarter, we bring together hundreds of product managers and designers to learn new AI skills and land tangible […]
Four warning signs your AI and collaboration investments aren’t paying off
Learn to transition from fragmented tools to a connected system of work that makes AI actually work for IT teams.
The Next Chapter for Compass
Equipping Engineering Teams for the AI‑Native SDLC Over the last few years, Compass has helped thousands of developers answer a fundamental question: What do I own, and where do I find it? By bringing services, ownership, repos, and documentation into one place, Compass gave teams a shared map of their software. But the world around […]
Engineering the Forge Billing Platform for Reliability and Scale
Introduction Forge is Atlassian’s cloud app development platform. It’s a serverless, Atlassian-hosted environment that allows developers to extend products like Jira and Confluence, and it powers thousands of apps running inside customer organizations. As Forge grew, we introduced usage-based pricing, so developers only pay for what they use above a free tier. With that shift […]
AI’s speed paradox: why faster individuals don’t mean faster organizations
AI has accelerated execution, but misalignment is quietly eroding shared outcomes. Here’s what leaders can do next.
Rovo Chat in Bitbucket now understands your Pipelines
Why did your build fail? Ask Rovo, get a clear answer, and even a way to fix it, from anywhere in Bitbucket Pipeline debugging is one of the most common and most painful parts of the development workflow. In our Atlassian research: AI adoption is rising, but friction persists, over 50% of developers reported losing […]
Your feedback tool is not there to tell you what to build
By Mehdi Boudoukhane and Thibaut Nyssens – from their work building feedback systems at Cycle, now part of Atlassian
AI isn’t a productivity hack. It’s a team sport
Four moves leaders can take now to foster time, trust, and clean data so AI can drive results across your team