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New in Bitbucket Server 5.1: Signed commits, PR deletion, and more
[cta]Last month we announced the beginning of our Bitbucket Server & DC 5.x series with an enhanced focus on helping our customers achieve DevOps success. Today we’re taking aim at the management side of DevOps by making the administration of your development toolset easier with Bitbucket Server and Data Center 5.1. Keep reading to learn about […]
4 challenges in developing safety-critical software (and what to do about them)
This is a guest blog post written by Dr. Marion Lepmets. Dr. Lepmets has an extensive academic background in medical device software development and co-authored IEC TR 80002-3, the process model for medical device software lifecycle processes. She is the CEO and co-founder of SoftComply. [cta]When someone’s life is in your hands, you are going to […]
An open letter to computer science graduates
Congratulations! The hard work you’ve put in and perseverance you’ve shown over the past few years has paid off. Now the fun begins (and I don’t just mean a summer of post-exam partying, though that’s a lot of fun, too). Amongst the myriad transitions you’re making is one that doesn’t often get mentioned in commencement speeches: […]
Introducing Jira Cloud for iPad
It’s no secret that the use of mobile devices is now widespread for businesses large and small, across all industries. When we launched Jira Cloud for iPhone last year, among the first questions was: “When is it coming to iPad?” [cta] The answer is: today! We’re excited to announce Jira Cloud for iPad is here. […]
Developing the Unsplash-Trello integration
For the past few months we’ve been working on bringing Unsplash into Trello. Check out Trello’s blog post announcing the launch if you missed it! It was a great experience because Unsplash is really cool and we knew our users would love it (I know WE do ❤️). It was also a great experience because we followed […]
How Kiva is ending poverty through personal connection
In rural Zimbabwe, Lindiwe walks a worn, dirt path to her store. It’s a path she has walked all her life, growing up in her small town. She knows every twist and turn, the feel of the soft dirt under her feet. The path eventually takes her to the center of her village, a small […]
Code tells a story: 3 ways to turn your audience into your editor
This is a guest blog post by Adil Aijaz, CEO and Co-Founder of Split.io. Like writing, software development is a creative and iterative process. Our code is like a story, and the more we edit the code, the better it gets. Passing work on to an editor lets us take a step back, and it provides […]
The 5 secrets of high-performing IT teams
What makes for a high-performing IT team? We ran a survey with HDI to find out.
Start collaborating sooner and test-drive your performance with Confluence 6.2
With the release of Confluence Server 6.2 you can start collaborating sooner by inviting your team to edit a page, see if we speak your language with 4 new European language packs, and test-drive your AWS hosted Data Center instance with a new set of performance measurement tools. Read on to learn more. Start collaborating […]
6 amazing Maker Faire projects and the teams that made them
If you could make anything, what would it be? That is the question that makers around the world ask themselves as they gear up to create a project for Maker Faire , “the greatest show and tell on earth”, with events in over 40 countries. [cta]We bounced down to Maker Faire Bay Area last weekend – described […]
Incident communication best practices
Incidents have always been a fact of life for people in IT and Ops. Today, it’s web developers, cloud service providers, and DevOps practitioners that are getting a crash course in incident communication.[cta] Web scale incident communication is more complex than simply sending a bulk email. There are different audiences to consider. Different thresholds for […]
Windows 2.0 gets a fresh look
SourceTree 2.0 brings massive wins not only for performance, but for design. In this release, we’ve continued to address the number one customer feedback theme: UI complexity. To this end, we’ve brought some much needed consistency and simplicity to the interface. A proper home for tabs The Windows App always used tabs for navigating between […]
What self-driving cars can teach us about software testing
This is a guest post written by Hamesh Chawla, VP of Engineering, at Zephyr. Hamesh is responsible for the worldwide engineering function at Zephyr and brings over 18 years of engineering, mobile, and networking technology experience to his role. Outside of work, Hamesh enjoys golfing, playing tennis, and spending time with his two daughters. Autonomous […]
Everything you wanted to know about the Health Monitor (but were afraid to ask)
Since introducing the Health Monitor to teams outside Atlassian, we’ve gotten a lot of enthusiastic feedback. And quite a few questions, too. For some teams, the lingering questions and doubts are holding them back from giving the Health Monitor a try. Maybe that’s the case for your team. Today, I’d like to answer some of […]
Document changes with required issue keys in Bitbucket Cloud
“Why was this change made again?” Issue keys referenced in commit messages help answer this question by providing a link with more context around why a particular change was made. They’re useful for everyone from new team members getting their bearings with a repo, to quality engineers reviewing the latest release, or a budding startup getting […]