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Atlassian
Company blog · atlassian.com/blogprogrammingproductivity
Atlassian is the company blog at atlassian.com, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2008, 663 different Hacker News readers have linked it 784 times, most often “Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Atlassian pages mainly as reference: git tutorials on reset, rebase and workflows, plus outage post-incident reviews and status-page material cited when discussing outages and transparency.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Atlassian's team collaboration software like Jira, Confluence and Trello help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work.
Most-linked posts?
- Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016)32 people · 39 mentions · first linked 2019-04-06
- JIRA Junior9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2013-04-01
- Atlassian is Down9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2018-03-02
- Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2022-04-13
- Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2018-12-06
- /git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-09-25
- /software/stash7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2014-02-07
- /software/confluence7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-09-04
- /git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-12-12
- Atlassian ending development of new features in “Server” products6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-01-14
What Hacker News says?
Can't confirm. My results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/symptoms-testing/t... https://www.testing.de/ https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/en/coronavirus/i... https://www.atlassian.com/continuous-delivery/software-testi...
Comment linking /continuous-delivery/software-testing/types-of-software-testing
on “Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories”Submitted Angry Nerds as a story · 572 points
HN discussionAtlassian has this business model sewn up https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage
Comment linking /software/statuspage
on “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”Submitted Atlassian Cloud ToS section 3.3(I) prohibits discussing performance issues as a story · 419 points
HN discussionAtlassian's #HugOps page[1] collates messages of support for Devops as a public embedded Google Map and it really encapsulates the current feeling! https://imgur.com/a/3RurTYf Don't forget to #HugOps all the people who've been woken up on a monday morning with this! Hope this gets resolved soon :) [1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage/hugops
Comment linking /software/statuspage/hugops
on “Google outage – resolved”Submitted Atlassian moving to cloud-only, will stop selling server licenses as a story · 380 points
HN discussionI read it. I think there should be a follow-on discussion here about programming paradigm that empowers a "do what I mean not what I say" mentality. Atlassian's recent fiasco https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda... is another motivating example for such a paradigm. The author of the blog touches on this paradigm as a UI element. Software engineers should have pushed that as a "gotcha" up thro…
Comment linking /engineering/april-2022-outage-update
on “We lost 54k GitHub stars”Submitted Comparing Git Workflows as a story · 268 points
HN discussionAnd what is an SRE at Google? https://www.atlassian.com/it-unplugged/devops/site-reliabili...
Comment linking /it-unplugged/devops/site-reliability-engineering-sre
on “Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test”Submitted Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage as a story · 253 points
HN discussionHighlights on leave are found here, which AFAIK never mentions “unlimited leave” - https://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/resources/perk-and...
Comment linking /company/careers/resources/perk-and-benefits/global?tab=perks-and-benefits
on “Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer”Submitted Burnout is real – how to avoid it as a story · 227 points
HN discussion> And not verifiable as a fact https://www.atlassian.com/company/values - Open company, no bullshit - Don’t Fuck the customer Unless you are talking about them being the "only company". I'm sure there are others out there with similar ones but Atlassian is the only one I can find where internal company values containing "shit" and "fuck" are proudly displayed to the customers.
Comment linking /company/values
on “Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer”Submitted The M&A Process Is Broken as a story · 175 points
HN discussionThere is a thing that I dont understand, from their blog/report [1] If the script was used in "permanently delete" mode, which is intended for compliance... how do you restore? Is it the only explanation... if the deletion is non-compliant? > Second, the script we used provided both the "mark for deletion" capability used in normal day-to-day operations (where recoverability is desirable), and the "permanently delet…
Comment linking /engineering/april-2022-outage-update
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Jira on premises end of life starts feb 2021 as a story · 163 points
HN discussionVery ironic if you have a look at their values... >Open company, no bullshit >Don’t #@!%the customer https://www.atlassian.com/company/values
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on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Git Tutorials and Training as a story · 156 points
HN discussionHi, this is Mike from Atlassian Engineering. You are right the communications from us have not lived up to our standard. We will focus on this specifically once we restore service and get the post incident review out there. More details here: https://www.atlassian.com/engineering/april-2022-outage-upda...
Comment linking /engineering/april-2022-outage-update
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Update on the Atlassian outage affecting some customers as a story · 132 points
HN discussionHi, I'm Mike and I work in Engineering at Atlassian. Here's our approach to backup and data management: https://www.atlassian.com/trust/security/data-management - we certainly have the backups and have a restore process that we keep to. However, this incident stressed our ability to do this at scale, which has led to the very long times to restore.
Comment linking /trust/security/data-management
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Way to store your dotfiles: A bare Git repository (2016) as a story · 121 points
HN discussionYou can sleep soundly: it seems like they back _everything_ up: > Second, the script we used provided both the "mark for deletion" capability ... (where recoverability is desirable), and the "permanently delete" capability that is required to permanently remove data when required for compliance reasons . The script was executed with the wrong execution mode and the wrong list of IDs. The result was that sites for ap…
Comment linking /engineering/april-2022-outage-update
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Jira new pricing tier to –$765,432,091.03 per user / month as a story · 97 points
HN discussionAfaik, the Data Center option still allows for on-premise deployment, incl. Kubernetes and cloud deployments [1, 2, 3]. [1] https://www.atlassian.com/enterprise/data-center [2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/jira-data-center... [3] https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/deploying-enterp...
Comment linking /enterprise/data-center
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie as a story · 95 points
HN discussionTheir on-prem options are being reduced down to one product with pretty high minimum spend numbers: - 500 users (Jira Software, Confluence, Crowd) - 50 agents (Jira Service Management) - 25 users (Bitbucket) https://www.atlassian.com/migration/assess/journey-to-cloud https://www.atlassian.com/migration/assess/compare-cloud-dat...
Comment linking /migration/assess/compare-cloud-data-center
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Future Pricing for Atlassian Cloud as a story · 71 points
HN discussionAtlassian has EOL'ed their non-cloud products https://www.atlassian.com/migration/assess/journey-to-cloud
Comment linking /migration/assess/journey-to-cloud
on “Inside the longest Atlassian outage”Submitted Atlassian Confluence $5 for 5 users as a story · 64 points
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