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Practical continuous deployment: a guide to automated software delivery
Continuous deployment guides frequently focus on the culture and adoption aspects. What’s less common to see is how teams have...
Steve Smith
npm for Bitbucket 2.0: Now with private packages!
Note: This is a repost of our previous announcement. However if you don’t have it already, the Bitbucket NPM add-on...
‘–force considered harmful; understanding git’s –force-with-lease
Git’s push --force is destructive because it unconditionally overwrites the remote repository with whatever you have locally, possibly overwriting any changes...
Quick Tip: Getting Emacs and IntelliJ to play together
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m gradually working towards my grey-beard badge so for most of my programming I tend to use...
On-demand activation of Docker containers with systemd
One of the features of systemd is its ability to defer the start-up of networked applications until their services are actually...
Realtime updates from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch
The following is a repost of an article from my personal blog that describes how to perform event-driven updates from a...
Quick tip: fully automating your Stash deployments
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. Things are pretty hectic here on the developer advocacy team....
Organic code reviews for a billion-dollar order system
Let’s get the punch-line out of the way up-front: “Without being asked”. In a move that genuinely surprised me, the team...
My.Atlassian.com maintenance today
At approximately 5am UTC (midnight US Central time) we will be performing some maintenance on the machine that hosts some...
The road to HAMS 3.0 – Transactions, atomicity and credit-cards
HAMS is Atlassian’s order processing system; if you’ve ever bought an Atlassian product it’s HAMS that’s been doing the work...
The road to HAMS 3.0 – Transaction boundaries
HAMS is Atlassian’s order processing system; if you’ve ever bought an Atlassian product it’s HAMS that’s been doing the work...
Website maintenance this Saturday/Sunday
As part of a project to expand the disaster recovery for our customer data, on Sunday the 20th of February...
Subversion replication at Atlassian
It’s cool working for an international company with an open philosophy, but our decentralised setup can cause some real headaches...
Clustering Cisco routers with VRRP and SLAs
As part of the move our new Sydney office we purchased a duplicate of our main router, a Cisco 1841....
ShipIt V – Sieve mail processing for Jira
The problem Jira has a very useful mail integration system that allows issues to be created and commented on via...