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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.
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
