@polydao: Atlassian's revenue: $1.79 billion last quarter Atlassian's move: fire the engineer who built their infrastructure his …
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A fired Atlassian engineer posted a 38-minute breakdown of the infrastructure he built, revealing details about Envoy proxy, sidecar architecture, DynamoDB, SQS, Packer, and SaltStack, effectively providing a free enterprise playbook.
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@qkl2058: Atlassian earned $1.79 billion last quarter. Then they laid off the engineer who built that infrastructure. After being laid off, this guy did something: he released a 38-minute video that breaks down every system he built, making it publicly available for free, so anyone can use it. What he revealed includes: · Using Envoy…
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