Development

Stash levels up deployment flexibility with AWS support

Flexibility is an important consideration for all professional teams, whether it concerns infrastructure, workflow, or scalability needs. It’s a factor that is always first and foremost for us when we’re building products and it’s something our customers have come to know and love about Atlassian. With respect to infrastructure in particular, these needs are changing. Gone are the days when on-premise solutions were the status quo – with the advent of affordable, secure, and scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions, we’re now seeing a trend towards deployments in the cloud or a hybrid mix of both.

Happy birthday, Git! Cheers to 10 years

Dear Git, Watching you grow up over the last 10 years has been quite the journey. When your creator, Linus Torvalds, first announced you were coming into this world after only three days of coding, we had no idea how big of an impact you would have on all of our lives. You allow teams […]

3 steps to taming technical debt with Jira

Learn how to reduce technical debt.

Quick Tip: Getting Emacs and IntelliJ to play together

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m gradually working towards my grey-beard badge so for most of my programming I tend to use Emacs. However when I moved into the order-systems team I adopted IntelliJ IDEA, which is our weapon of choice for Java development at Atlassian. This is because while Emacs is a great text editor, IntelliJ takes a holistic and […]

Tip of the week: Configure your Java version in Tomcat

During my tour of duty providing support for our Tomcat and Java based behind-the-firewall apps, a common concern was the effect of updating Java or the JVM in the host after installing the product, and how it may affect a running production system. As some operating systems will auto-update system libraries such as Java with little notice, this […]

Get started with these Jira Portfolio demo videos

Are you using Jira Portfolio but unsure about where to start? Or maybe you’re not using Jira Portfolio but want to see how it works? Good news! We’ve created a series of Jira Portfolio demo videos to teach you the fundamentals so you can get your projects into Jira Portfolio in no time. There are 9 videos in total (whoa!) but each one is only 3 to 5 mins long (phew!). If you’re new to Jira Portfolio, we recommend watching them in order.

Bitbucket snippets for teams are here with a rich set of APIs

We’re thrilled to announce Snippets, available now in Bitbucket, where you can create and manage multi-file snippets of all kinds. We took a different approach than standard pastebin or gist and we built Snippets around teams. Snippets can be shared with your team, made private to you, or fully public; you control read and write privileges. If you create a snippet owned by your team, the snippet will stay with the team forever, even after you leave that team.

Working to be the change that you (the customer) seek

Who loves feedback? I can you tell that we do. We love it so much that we’ve created a team dedicated to seeking, synthesizing, and taking action on feedback from our customers. We call it the ‘Voice of the Customer’ team – i.e., the Voice of You. Recently, we’ve been sending emails and adding feedback prompts in our products with a single question: “On a scale from 1 to 10, how likely are you to recommend the product to a colleague?” And we use your answers to calculate our Net Promoter Score (NPS).

Five ways to make your life easier using Atlassian add-ons

The devil’s in the details, they say. And those little details can send you up a wall if they’re not working just right. Your real work is too important to let stuff like this get to you. The Atlassian Marketplace has a vast array of useful — and no-cost — add-ons to take care of the everyday hassles, so you can get back to work.

On-demand activation of Docker containers with systemd

One of the features of systemd is its ability to defer the start-up of networked applications until their services are actually requested, a process referred to as socket activation. This isn’t really a new an idea; systemd borrowed the idea from launchd which has been in OS X since Tiger‘s release in 2005, and the venerable Unix inetd has implemented […]

Inside Atlassian: stand-ups for distributed and co-located teams

Stand-up is one of the fundamental parts of agile development, and it’s often the most misunderstood. Let’s be real: stand-ups by themselves don’t make your team agile. They aren’t about inflating egos or justifying job descriptions. They aren’t a time to plan; Sprint planning is for planning. They also aren’t the only time to mention blockers. If you’re stuck, ask for help!

Share tribal knowledge securely with Confluence Questions 2

We built Confluence Questions to help you share tribal knowledge and get answers to your questions at work. It’s helped us share broad, Atlassian-wide questions and get answers to specific questions, too. Today, we’re excited to announce Confluence Questions 2, which will help you share information within your team by making sure questions are both relevant and secure.

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For Gilt, agile isn’t a best practice – it’s a mindset

With over 6 million members, Gilt is one of the hottest e-commerce sites on the planet. At noon every day it provides a flash sale of today’s top designer labels at up to 60% off retail. “At Gilt, every day is Black Friday,” says lead engineer Yoni Goldberg. Seconds after announcing a new sale, site traffic and transactions hurtle astronomically. Every employee and every team from development to distribution centers must be ready for the spike. It takes an agile, collaborative effort, spanning hundreds of employees from Dublin to Manhattan, to ensure a smooth and reliable customer experience.