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Statuspage examples: 24 status pages showcasing excellent customization, design, and incident communication
We’ve seen a lot of status pages over the years. Everything from scrappy DIY pages for side projects to totally bespoke plans for global corporations has crossed our monitors in one way or another. We wanted to share some examples of great status pages we’ve seen through the years. A good status page helps visitors […]
Is your team making bad decisions? The culprit is likely your conversations
“Oh no, here we go again,” thought Laura as she sat in her weekly engineering meeting. Two of her engineers, Rob and Rachel were at it again. Arguing back and forth, over and over, about which framework they should choose for their next big project. She had seen this many times before. Team meetings where […]
How to win at CI with configuration-as-code and Bamboo Specs
Expectations from continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools differ between teams and organizations. Small projects require relatively simple CI/CD solutions, where the simplicity of configuration (with a handful of defaults) is the key to success. However, mature, enterprise teams have more intricate processes, with hundreds of thousands of tests and advanced release pipelines. […]
Be kind during downtime: spread #HugOps love today (and every day)
Have you ever seen a tweet like this and wondered what it was? It’s #HugOps! We’re sending you some giant #HugOps today (and every day), and hope that after reading this you feel inspired to pass on some #HugOps, too. Hold up…What is HugOps? Put simply, HugOps is a way to celebrate the human, empathetic side […]
104 years of downtime: looking through a year of Statuspage incident data
Statuspage customers logged more than 104 years of collective incidents in 2017. We’re always interested in the ripple effects of downtime, and with a few high-profile outages taking place in 2017, we wanted to see what our numbers had to say. To get a handle on this, we decided to look through our data on how many […]
3 myths that explain why innovation fails
Businesses are terrible at innovating. Sure, recruiters promise innovative jobs, companies claim to sell innovative merchandise, and shareholders rave about innovation. But most of these promises are hollow. (And deep down, we all know it.) That spells trouble for anyone competing in a well-established market space. You can’t be a little bit different or a little […]
A new look and time-saving features with Confluence 6.7
To kick off the new year, we’re excited to announce the release of Confluence Server 6.7. Read on to learn more about our new look, improvements to @mentions and email notifications, and a Team Calendars update. New year, new look We launched our bold new brand this past September and today, we’re introducing a fresh, new look for Confluence Server […]
Your 2018 Atlassian Admin to-do list
Admins, you are the lifeblood of Atlassian. Thank you! We marvel at the blend of brainpower and passion you invest not just in your company and role but also in your own personal growth. We want to help make your 2018 a year where your passion and expertise collide to propel your career to great […]
A beginner’s guide to scaling DevOps
Over the years “DevOps” has become quite the buzzword. It’s been used to describe culture changes, automation, change management, continuous delivery… essentially, a culture where dev and ops collaborate to build a faster, more reliable release pipeline. That’s all well and good… until you’ve been assigned the task of scaling your organization’s “DevOps transformation”. It’s an […]
4 tips for getting started with knowledge management
There’s a way to re-write the script – here’s how.
3 steps to convince your team it’s time to get Data Center
It’s a brand new year, and with it will come a brand new budgeting cycle. Something many wait for, and maybe even dread to some extent! You start thinking about the tools and services that could accelerate your business results. Perhaps you’ve already spent months evaluating something, and now really want to make the case […]
15 hot takes on the future of agile
#IWish there was another kind of Agile besides just Scrum and Kanban. #RetroOnAgile — Dan Chuparkoff (@Chuparkoff) January 28, 2018 Agile is about to reach its 20th birthday. Software teams, support teams, and even marketing teams have been practicing its rules and principles for years. These teams have built some amazing products thanks to agile […]
Automate tasks with AWS Systems Manager and Opsgenie Actions: a use case
In this scenario, we will discuss automating the process of disabling public access for a security group.
Why you should learn more about agile HR
This is a guest post by Alexis Croswell, Content Marketing Manager at Culture Amp. The concepts behind agile development have proven so successful, other teams, like HR, are starting to adopt the agile philosophy. You’ve likely seen some great articles on agile software development, which was created as a way to meet the rapidly changing […]
10 ways to tell if your team trusts you as a leader
Trust makes your job as a leader easier in just about every way possible. Your teams make decisions faster (and revisit them less often). People pro-actively admit to and learn from mistakes instead of scrambling to hide them. It’s easy enough to know your own level of trust in the people you lead. But gauging […]
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