Build your own Atlassian Infrastructure

mikhomikho AdministratorOG Bash Me Gently

Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter
Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure

his move: post a 38-minute breakdown of every system he built, free for anyone to copy

what he revealed:

Envoy proxy instead of enterprise load balancers
sidecar architecture for auth, logging, rate limits
DynamoDB + SQS for async provisioning
Packer + SaltStack for automated VM deployments at scale

Atlassian charges per employee across 350,000 customers

this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

https://x.com/polydao/status/2055197994635424038?s=46&t=apQqeWHT40pN8V08HyuV2Q

Meet Nix and Bruce @ https://twobirdsonelesbox.com

Comments

  • WSSWSS OG Guru Meditation Error

    This is interesting, but not too many people here would be in the need of that much of an infrastructure.

    And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

  • mikhomikho AdministratorOG Bash Me Gently

    @WSS said:
    This is interesting, but not too many people here would be in the need of that much of an infrastructure.

    Posted as being interesting due to being a large infrastructure, and still using free, open source components.

    Meet Nix and Bruce @ https://twobirdsonelesbox.com

  • Thanks for sharing. What I actually found interesting is that I think this was his "résumé" which is more likely to be shared than a PDF. Not sure if this was really his true intent but he pretty much does does a self-interview in a way. Starts with an architectural breakdown of their AWS-backed stack then sells himself about his ability to resolve conflicts, simplify complex problems for colleagues, and then some mentoring experience.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith AdministratorProviderOG

    The fact that people pay for Trello is hilarious to me.

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  • @mikho said:

    this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

    ... on the Nazi-platform. Pity.

  • mikhomikho AdministratorOG Bash Me Gently

    @wankel said:

    @mikho said:

    this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

    ... on the Nazi-platform. Pity.

    Meet Nix and Bruce @ https://twobirdsonelesbox.com

  • @wankel said:

    @mikho said:

    this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

    ... on the Nazi-platform. Pity.

    Maybe he could cross-post it Substack

  • edited May 16

    @wankel said:

    @mikho said:

    this guy just handed you the enterprise playbook for free

    ... on the Nazi-platform. Pity.

    Elon Musk is nothing but a grifter, who married non-white women and has mixed-race children, advocated for H-1B visas for Indians and much more. His platform bans people for posting negative opinions on jews.
    He is also a capitalist, and literally the richest person on earth.

    Calling him or his platform "Nazi" is delusional. By calling everyone a Nazi you don't harm the movement, you normalize it.

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith AdministratorProviderOG

    A healthy life is one where you can disagree and get along.

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  • This is wild. Atlassian firing the literal architect of their core infrastructure while pulling in $1.79B tells you everything you need to know about modern corporate logic.

    On the bright side, that stack breakdown is an absolute masterclass. Using Envoy for edge routing and a Sidecar pattern for telemetry/auth is industry standard for a reason, but seeing how they glued it together with SaltStack and DynamoDB for async provisioning at that scale is beautiful. One man's revenge is the community's free enterprise textbook.

  • Gotta love the banter around this. People saying great now we know what not to do etc

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