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Atlassian research: AI adoption is rising, but friction persists

Atlassian’s 2025 State of DevEx Survey reveals a paradox: AI is saving developers time, but they’re still losing time to organizational inefficiencies


Atlassian research: AI adoption is rising, but friction persists

Atlassian’s 2025 State of DevEx Survey reveals a paradox: AI is saving developers time, but they’re still losing time to organizational inefficiencies

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Atlassian research: AI adoption is rising, but friction persists

Atlassian’s 2025 State of DevEx Survey reveals a paradox: AI is saving developers time, but they’re still losing time to organizational inefficiencies

Atlassian research: AI adoption is rising, but friction persists

Atlassian’s 2025 State of DevEx Survey reveals a paradox: AI is saving developers time, but they’re still losing time to organizational inefficiencies

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

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.

Atlassian research: AI adoption is rising, but friction persists

Atlassian’s 2025 State of DevEx Survey reveals a paradox: AI is saving developers time, but they’re still losing time to organizational inefficiencies

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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