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Fired Atlassian engineer posts breakdown of every system he built

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

save this

Read in full here:

https://twitter.com/polydao/status/2055197994635424038

First Post!

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And sadly, more companies will be doing this in the future :frowning:

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