Atlassian has officially announced the availability of Compass, it’s new developer experience platform to empower engineering organizations to bring all their teams and technology together to promote a healthy engineering culture, improve risk management and reliability, and increase developer velocity.
Compass is a developer portal that provides a unified real-time representation of the engineering output in one place. It helps track the components built by engineering teams and naturally compliments Jira, which tracks the effort of engineering teams in building those components.
In a post today on the Atlassian Newsletter, Compass Head of Product, Taylor Pechacek, explained that Compass would ghelp engineering teams of all sizes improve their developer experience.
“Software development teams face more complexity than ever. The rising expectations of developers to manage security vulnerabilities, configure cloud services, automate testing, implement observability instrumentation, and more, has created an environment where DevOps toil often outpaces time spent writing code and shipping new features.”
“In addition, the explosion of microservices, APIs, distributed teams, frameworks, and more, add fuel to the fire as engineering leaders struggle to understand points of friction within the developer experience that slow down software delivery and introduce risk”, the post reads.
“With this increasing technical complexity, building world-class engineering teams is not just a technology problem—it’s a collaboration problem. Over the past two decades, we have helped engineering teams work better together. Now, we are solving this growing challenge to unleash the potential of engineering teams within our 260,000+ customers and beyond.”
Pechacek further states that Compass will be readily available with the following default capabilities:
-Unified software component catalog: Reduce time spent searching and untangle your technical architecture with an easy-to-setup, centralized catalog to track all of your services and relevant data—in one place.
-Health scorecards, DORA metrics, and more: Establish and track software delivery and team health metrics to identify points of friction for development teams and improve reliability for existing services.
-Software templates: Remove guesswork and automate consistency for developers creating new services with best practices, policies, cloud provisioning, and deployment pipelines baked right into customizable templates.
G-Extensibility: Connect all of your favorite observability, CI/CD, testing, collaboration, and source code management tools to prevent context switching and see relevant data for all of the services you own.
Read more here: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/compass-GA
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