☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆Um is there anything to know? Jira is a basic CRUD app that's backed by reasonably good deployment, operations, marketing, sales, and low enough prices for smaller plans that people don't bother to self-host their own alternative. But it doesn't seem mysterious how it works.
I haven't watched the video, but two things I wonder:
- Surely he signed an agreement when he was hired promising they could hit him with an enormous lawsuit if he ever spilled "muh trade secrits." I'm wondering how he got away with this unless all he's sharing is public info.
- Is anything Atlassian has done really that non-obvious that anyone couldn't just reproduce (or improve on) it from scratch just given some thinking and elbow grease? (Like, Confluence is a glorified WYSIWIG editor. Bamboo is Jenkins slightly spiffed up so it doesn't still feel like something straight out of 1991. And another Jira can be easily procured by anyone willing to travel to hell and request the next steaming shit Satan takes.)
I was curious about the NDA bit as well, but I guess it's the sort of stuff you'd talk about in a tech interview as well. He's not revealing any deep secrets there. And while none of this stuff is necessarily rocket science, it is always interesting to see how big companies structure stuff that needs to run at scale. A lot of this stuff gets figured out through trial and error, and you can save some time by learning what worked for others.
the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55pTFVoclvE
