An all-in-one tool that Atlassian boasts will help developers tame software sprawl.
Atlassian has announced the launch of Compass, an all-in-one platform touted to help software developers overcome the complexities of building and operating software architecture using multiple tools. Speaking to ZDNet, Atlassian agile and DevOps solutions product head Tiffany To said Compass was born from an internal tool the company built to help its developers keep track of the tools they were using. « Just as an order of reference, Atlassian manages 1,500 microservices for our cloud products, so that type of sprawl is just really hard for [DevOps] teams to manage, » she said. « It’s coordinating, collaborating who owns what dependencies — it just gets insanely difficult… so we ended up building our own tool to track all of these things. » To said Atlassian decided to invest further in the internal tool through its Point A innovation program and, as a result, developed Compass. « What we see is the work happens in Slack; they’re sending messages like, ‘Who owns this thing? Who owns that thing?’, or ‘It’s down, we should triage it’.
