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Inside Atlassian's Merge Queues: How we ship faster with fewer incidents

At Atlassian, we use Merge Queues to ship frequent changes with confidence and streamline pull request merges. Across some of our busiest codebases, Merge Queues have sharply reduced incident frequency and turned merging from a stressful bottleneck into a background task. Today, most of our largest repositories rely on Merge Queues—over 70 large repos across products like Jira, Rovo, Trello, and others—having safely landed 30,000 pull requests since adopting Merge Queues Beta last quarter.

Harness Cursor Plugin Demo: AI for Software Delivery from Your IDE

Stop context-switching between your IDE and your CI/CD dashboards. In this video, we demonstrate the new Harness Cursor Plugin, a native integration that brings the full power of the Harness AI Software Delivery Platform directly into Cursor. Using the Cursor Agent window and the new Harness Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, you can now manage your entire software delivery lifecycle through natural language. From triggering pipelines to governing deployments, this plugin ensures you stay in your flow while maintaining enterprise-grade security and control.

Share artifacts between parent and child pipelines | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Bitbucket Pipelines lets you build reusable pipelines and share them across repositories. These reusable, shared pipelines need a way to share artifacts. Otherwise, we’ll have to repeat expensive steps such as downloading and installing dependencies and building the application code. You can now specify an artifacts section for child pipelines, with upload and download keywords. Artifacts listed under upload will be moved from the parent pipeline into the child pipeline, where they can be used and potentially modified.

GitKraken Desktop in 6 Minutes: Open a Repo, Run an Agent, Ship the Change

The fastest way to get up and running in GitKraken Desktop. In this tutorial, you'll open a repo, start an AI coding agent in its own worktree, review the agent's changes against your own work, and ship a pull request without leaving the app. What you'll learn: Chapters Help Center: help.gitkraken.com.

Inclusive AI vs. centralized AI: Can India avoid big tech concentration?

At the 2026 India AI Impact Summit in February 2026, 92 countries and international organizations (including the US, China, and the UK) signed a preliminary agreement that positions AI as both a development tool and a shared global responsibility. “India will not be a mere consumer in the AI age. We will be the creators, the builders, and the exporters of intelligence and we are proud to be able to participate in that future.” Gautam Adani, chairman of the Adani Group.

Why do you need incident alerting? (And why monitoring alone isn't enough)

Monitoring tools track what’s happening across your systems and send a Slack message or email when something looks off. But they don’t call anyone and they don’t escalate the incident. If that Slack message goes unseen at 3 AM on a Saturday, the incident just sits there until someone opens their dashboard. Incident alerting fills this gap. When an incident triggers, it contacts the right person directly through a phone call or their preferred channel.