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CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes used the company's Thursday earnings call to reveal Atlassian now has five million users of its Rovo agentic AI offering and suggested that investors in the company might worry that costs would blow out as a result. "We're able to deliver those five million Rovo seats and continue to improve gross margin," he reassured. "That's a huge achievement on behalf of our engineering teams, but it shows that we can manage those AI costs inside for the vast majority of customers."

Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it's spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues - but thinks they're now manageable. As explained in a Tuesday post by Senior Engineering Manager Andrew Ross, "Atlassian runs a large service-based platform with thousands of different services, most deployed by our custom orchestration system, 'Micros'."

In the tech industry there are only a couple of things that can make engineers try something new. Either it's because we can do something faster or because we can do something cheaper,

Atlassian is shutting down its data center product line and forcing all remaining customers to migrate to the cloud by March 2029, in a move that will affect thousands of enterprises still running the collaboration software on-premises. The Australian software maker will stop selling new data center subscriptions to new customers by March 30, 2026, and end all data center license sales by March 30, 2028. Existing licenses will expire and become read-only on March 28, 2029, the company said in a statement.

Atlassian migrated four million Postgres databases supporting its Jira implementations to AWS Aurora to enhance cost, reliability, and performance metrics.

Atlassian has introduced a CLI for Rovo Dev, an AI agent that assists developers in code completion, debugging, documentation generation, and integration with Jira and Confluence.

Atlassian's new strategy focuses on bundling its collaboration tools, such as Confluence, JIRA, and Loom, under the recently announced Teamwork Collection, rather than selling them individually.

The new maximum quantity billing scheme from Atlassian offers customers a predictable and simpler billing process, though it comes with potential pitfalls for those adding or removing seats.