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A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy. (medium.com)

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[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Honestly who'd want to copy their tech stack. Products like JIRA and confluence are notoriously bad and slow and hated by developers forced to use it. And all the good products are things they acquired over the years.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Trello was excellent before Atlassian started “improving” it. You’d always have to fight tooth-and-nail to keep your Trello board against managers who said it lacked features, even though precisely all the features a fucking kanban board needs is showing some tickets and columns.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps its its a guide on what not to do?

[–] goober@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As another former Atlassian engineer I'd say kinda yes and kinda no depending on which bits you're looking at.

One important thing a person could learn is: use existing platforms. Do not build a proprietary version of something like kubernetes. The weird internal eventing systems and fake janky kubernetes junk gave me headaches.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

One time I was at a place where we got a local ISP to build us a cloud virtualisation service at a discount (i.e. we were the guinea pig), but of course it was terrible and took ages to provision anything - so when someone in Platform stood up a Rancher cluster all of the devs immediately switched to using that.