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Growing the next generation of coders and computational thinkers
This guest post was written by Vivek Ravisankar, CEO & Cofounder of HackerRank, a platform that helps programmers hone their skills and connect with companies. HackerRank is the leading player in the programming talent assessment space, and the company is growing. Programming is a fundamental tool to help you discover solutions to problems by following […]
Uniting technical and non-technical teams for better incident response
It takes a village to respond to and resolve incidents. But the teams involved in incident response often work in silos: SREs and devs are heads down fixing the problem, support is flooded with emails/tickets, and marketing/PR may be putting out fires on Twitter. Even if there’s some communication happening over chat or across desks, there’s […]
Approvals just got a whole lot easier in Jira Service Desk Server
You may have noticed a theme these past few Jira Service Desk releases – the team has been focused on making approvals a whole lot easier for your team. In Jira Service Desk 3.9, we implemented a THEN clause which allows you to automatically approve or decline requests when they meet certain criteria. In 3.10, we made approvals […]
Designing inclusive illustrations (or, a brief history of the meeple)
2017 was a huge year for the Atlassian brand and design. We developed a new design language that touches every part of our business. It was an effort not only to change the way we embody our personality but also change the standard we hold ourselves to. Over the past few years, our use of illustration has become more […]
Use Jira Software search to accelerate DevOps workflows
Imagine you’re driving down the highway, and you see what appears to be a traffic jam in the distance. Before the panic sets in, you realize your car is equipped with GPS. You have complete, wizard-like visibility into what’s ahead and can answer exact questions like: what are the alternative routes? What’s my new estimated time […]
5 benefits of using an intranet in the workplace
As someone who grew up in this digitized age, there are two things that are important to my productivity: I’m able to share and access information as easily and pain-free as possible I’m able to connect with my teammates on more than just work Thankfully for me, intranets are still alive and thriving. Your intranet is the […]
Faster communication, more efficient teams: Results from our first ever customer survey
We’ve heard a lot of great customer stories at StatusPage over the years. From the support team who cut customer wait times in half, to the security company managing incident communication across 46 customer deployment groups, we know our customers see the value in their StatusPage account. We’re always hungry to know more about what […]
Bitbucket code search API is now available
Last year we shipped the highest requested feature for Bitbucket Cloud – code aware search, and we’re delighted with your feedback and responses. We’re excited to announce that we’ve published the Bitbucket Cloud code search API delivering the same love to machines, and opening up code search for your needs. All code search features and more Our goal for the code search API […]
13 books that disrupt stereotypes and build emotional intelligence
There are so many experiences that can be understood through literature. When we access those stories, we push back on ignorance and build the emotional intelligence that is so important for personal and professional success.
Meet Bitbucket Cloud’s new chatbot
Bitbucket Cloud’s new chatbot features a wide range of notification types, plenty of interactivity, and some smart configuration features that will supercharge your team’s development workflow. The bot is available today for Slack and is coming soon to Atlassian Stride and other leading chat platforms. Smarter, by default Debates have sparked weighing the benefits of real-time communication and the […]
How to choose the right DevOps tools
Let’s be straight: no tool in the world will magically make you DevOps (or agile, or lean, or capable of continuous delivery…) DevOps champions collaboration and communication between development and operations teams, so it’s more of a cultural shift than a magic recipe. However, there are tools and technologies that support automation and collaboration between […]
Why we chose Kafka for the Trello socket architecture
Trello has been using RabbitMQ for the last three years. Prior to RabbitMQ, we were relying on a Redis Pub-Sub implementation. Recently, due to RabbitMQ’s questionable behavior when network partitions occur, we’ve made the switch over to Kafka. This blog post goes into depth on our RabbitMQ implementation, why we chose Kafka, and the Kafka-based […]