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Following a historic merger, two leading insurers come together on Atlassian’s Cloud Platform to accelerate collaboration

Future-thinking German insurer BarmeniaGothaer brings together thousands of employees on Atlassian’s tools to deliver even more value for policyholders

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Atlassian’s Inference Engine, our self-hosted AI inference service

Powering Enterprise-scale AI As Atlassian’s AI capabilities continue to scale rapidly across multiple products, a pressing challenge emerged: how do we deliver world-class AI-powered solutions to millions of users without compromising on latency, flexibility, and operational control? The answer: Atlassian’s Inference Engine, our custom-built, self-hosted AI inference platform that now powers production LLMs, search models, […]

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Migrating the Jira Database Platform to AWS Aurora

Discover how Atlassian migrated four million Jira databases to AWS Aurora—at scale and with minimal user impact. Learn about the technical challenges, strategies, and outcomes that enabled this ambitious transformation in reliability, performance, and cost efficiency

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How We Achieved 75% Faster Builds by Removing Barrel Files

Removing JavaScript barrel files from our Jira frontend codebase led to a 75% reduction in build times, with significantly faster TypeScript highlighting and unit testing. This large-scale automated change also improved CI efficiency and made code navigation much clearer for developers.

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Enhancing resiliency in opensearch clusters: An in-depth technical exploration of Admission Control

Admission control in OpenSearch helps keep clusters stable by limiting incoming requests when nodes are under heavy load. Atlassian saw improved search reliability after enabling this feature, especially during traffic spikes.

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Sharpen skills, build apps, and earn rewards with Forge Quest

We get it, learning a new development platform takes time. Reading docs is one thing, but actually building something? That’s where the real learning happens. That’s why we launched Forge Quest, a self-guided coding challenge designed to help developers level up their Forge skills by doing practical exercises that translate to real-world apps. Best part? […]

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Producing Software Bill of Materials a.k.a SBOMs for Atlassian

Atlassian’s SBOM platform generates detailed software inventories for compliance and security, using tools like Syft and cdxgen.

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Human in the Loop Software Development Agents

Atlassian’s HULA framework automates repetitive coding tasks, boosting developer efficiency while keeping engineers in control. Recognized by ICSE 2025, HULA is shaping the future of AI-assisted development.

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Boosting Performance: How We Scaled and Enhanced Throughput in the Jira Export Service

Migrating Jira cloud instances involves three steps: exporting data, transforming it, and importing it into a new instance. This process, aided by Atlassian tools, ensures data integrity and minimizes disruption, especially useful for consolidating accounts or moving specific projects.

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Implementing typography at scale: the journey behind the screens

Meet Atlassian’s bold new typefaces and discover the journey that brought them to life.

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When Words Meet Machines: The Future of Content Design

Content designers aren’t just considering the user experience anymore. They’re shaping the product itself.

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From script to screen(s): How I used my other life as a screenwriter to craft a hit content strategy

Because content design is a craft that is both new and somewhat misunderstood cross-functionally, content designers can often feel like the delightfully odd weirdo in the triad meeting.

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Scaling Jira Cloud migrations with external importers

Introduction Organizations use multiple project management tools to track work, leading to fragmentation, collaboration barriers, increased complexity, and higher costs. As organizations face macroeconomic challenges, there’s a push to consolidate work into fewer project management tools to rationalize costs. To support our customers in consolidating their work in Jira, we have developed an advanced external […]

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How we migrated Bitbucket Cloud to Envoy proxy

Introduction Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code hosting and collaboration solution. It serves both HTTPS and SSH traffic over the internet. Our engineering team recently completed a major architectural update of Bitbucket’s public facing Edge load balancing and proxy solution. Licensing and bandwidth were both primary motivators for this transition. Bitbucket Cloud began touching, and […]

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How we built a navigation that works for everyone

Discover how we tackled the challenge of creating a unified navigation system that simplifies cross-product experiences and works for all teams.