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In a creative drought? 3 ways to get your ideas flowing
We’ve all been there. Staring at a whiteboard, trying to pick a strategy out of thin air. Struggling to think of a name for your trivia team. Watching that blinking cursor dance atop a fresh document, waiting for your input. Just waiting…Drawing a blank is all too common when you’re tasked with coming up with something new. Whether it’s in art, business, or life—creativity on tap (like that fresh beer at your local brewery) isn’t something you’re guaranteed to always have.This problem is something you can prepare for, though. We’ve all got a wellspring of ideas inside us—you just have to know where to find it.
MS Teams: uploading custom apps (App Studio + sideloading)
There are multiple ways to create custom apps and multiple ways to create bots for said apps – each with their own advantages and drawbacks. We’ve assembled the following guide based on our own initial process for app creation and uploading in Microsoft Teams. This approach combines the use of Teams’s App Studio and sideloading to maximize available functionality and simplicity.
Expand the reach of your incident communication with Status Embed
Display the current state of your services in the places your customers are most likely to see it.
No jerks allowed
How one company’s commitment to culture supports people and profits.
Why Slack user groups are awesome and how to utilize them
It’s no secret that Slack is a dynamic tool. It allows teams to communicate in a fluid and transparent manner. Channels, direct messages, and threads are all amazing tools that allow you to organize messages and keep your team informed. One feature we love that doesn’t get talked about as much is User Groups.
Trello free vs. enterprise: your top 9 questions answered
The people in your company already use and love Trello. But they’re on the free plan, and you need something that’s more secure, customizable, and built to handle your large organization’s needs with ease.
How to be an amazing project team in a changing world
As the problems we tackle get more complex, the nature of project teams is changing. Here’s what you need to know (and what you should change) in order to be successful.
The key to mindfulness at work is being in 3 places at once
How to be mindful of content, self, and group dynamics at work – and what it means for your ability to innovate.
Level up your code review with continuous integration
At Atlassian we are big believers in reviewing code via pull requests. Every single line of code that is written follows a code review process before it is merged and deployed to production. Besides the benefit of diminishing the likelihood of bugs reaching production and the collaboration and learning that occurs when reviewing code with […]
Introducing External Services in Opsgenie, powered by Statuspage
The best way to stay informed about the services that matter most.
3 reasons you fail at communication in the workplace and how to improve
A no-BS guide for people who suck at communicating with coworkers. Which means you. Also, me.
Using JaCoCo as a code coverage tool for Scala
This blog post was contributed by Ihor Uksta, a software engineer at iDalko. As test management gets more complex, developers need a way to highlight specific aspects of code which may not be adequately reviewed and require additional testing. Code Coverage is a metric that measures what percentage of your code has been executed during […]
How to choose the right infrastructure for your Data Center deployment
We ran the tests so you don’t have to.
How to stop thinking about work (even when the workday is over)
You’re finished with work for the day. You shut down your computer, grab the used coffee cups from your desk, and head home. You’re done. But are you…really?
Our not-so-magic journey scaling low latency, multi-region services on AWS
Engineering stateless, high-availability cloud services comes with juuuuuuust a few challenges. Here’s how we (eventually) slayed the dragon.