Unnecessary Unit Tests

Interview: How Atlassian Responds to Cloud Concerns and Over-Configuration of Tools

I recently attended Team ‘24, Atlassian’s flagship conference, where I had the chance to meet with Matt Schvimmer, Senior Vice President and Head of Product for Atlassian’s Agile and DevOps portfolio. We discussed how Atlassian tools support modern software development.

Atlassian tools like Jira, Bitbucket, Compass, and the newly announced Focus play a critical role for teams operating in complex environments. Schvimmer provided insights into the evolution of Atlassian’s tools and their future roadmap. He also addressed challenges such as synchronizing documentation with code, managing microservice complexity, and tackling tool over-configuration or cloud-related concerns.

Marcus Held

HashMap

Hi,

HashMap? How can HashMap be a topic for the newsletter? Hold on!

The topic came to mind because I was in an interview for a client yesterday and spent quite a long time discussing the HashMap. The experience was a bit of déjà-vu. 2-3 years ago, I was heavily involved in recruiting. During that time, I conducted over 150 technical interviews. And from that period, I learned a lot about our industry. First and foremost, we lack seniority and fail to sufficiently develop young developers.

Marcus Held

Agile

Hi,

Dave Thomas never tires of mentioning that “agile” is an adjective - and not a noun. It is not capitalized.

The legendary document we have been referencing for nearly a quarter of a century is not called “The Agile Manifesto.”

It is called the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” . 👈

Agile is not something that can be bought. The manifesto describes how to develop software in an agile (as an adjective!) manner. It does not describe a product.

Marcus Held

GitOps, SRE, DevOps - A Look Back and into the Future

Hi,

Ten years ago, most companies were still dealing with manually managed infrastructures. Today, many medium-sized businesses still find themselves in the same situation. But that comes at a cost - and I’m feeling it right now.

The Ghosts of Differences

It’s astonishing how often we chase ghosts simply because our environments differ. This ranges from obvious things like available CPU or RAM to subtler issues like different kernel versions or configuration disparities in applications. It gets especially tricky with external application servers, where configuration files are spread throughout the system and can easily drift apart.

Marcus Held

Scrum Is Not Agile

Hi,

In one of my client projects, we reflect on our working methods.

Like most mid-sized projects out there, Scrum is used here too. But we have a few problems: - Sprint goals are never met - Not a sprint goes by without a new task coming in from the side - Estimations are regularly far from reality - Collaboration with other external parties is partially not integrated - … I can certainly think of more examples

Marcus Held