Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products

Post by nvm0n2 » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 9:49 PM UTC

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Almost total absence of GUIs and proper documentation. A big part of why people pay for AWS and friends is not instant scalability or even the fancy features, but simply because clouds wrap a half-way decent GUI around high level server oriented tasks combined with an actual task focused user guide. To compare, try comparing the docs and GUI help you get deploying a simple serverless app to Lambda+RDS vs configuring…

Thanks for sharing that. I think the documentation aspect is often overlooked. Even RedHat's subscriber-only documentation is ... quite dense, and yet, not very deep.

Post by dzikimarian » Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 3:31 PM UTC

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Using Atlassian cloud products is a business risk. They previously let customers sit for weeks without access to their data [1]. Cloud-hosted products do get early patches for unsecured /setup routes though [2], so there's that. At this point the decision has been made in our org to firewall their products off the internet and internal networks, and migrate to something else by 2024. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=atl…

As a former Atlassian administrator, I believe the opposite. Maintaining the system on-premise was a bigger risk. The products are too complicated to be packaged nearly with a bow for sysadmins. You inevitably start having to become at Atlassian SME just to keep that shit running. I’m all for your company going with an alternative product, but for a company who would rather stick with Atlassian products, you’d be ins…

Post by apple4ever » Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 4:59 AM UTC

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While Jira does many many things right, it is also horrible in so many ways. What options are you evaluating?

Linear is awesome