Seriously? Atlassian *Again*

Oh, joy. As if Jira wasn’t enough of a soul-crushing experience for developers, Atlassian decided to shell out a BILLION DOLLARS – yes, you read that right, one billion – for DX. DX? Never heard of ’em, and frankly, I doubt most devs have either until five minutes ago when this news broke. Apparently, they make some “developer productivity platform” thingy. Which means more metrics to track how slowly people are moving because of Atlassian’s own bloated software.

The gist? DX helps teams understand *why* development is slow. Like anyone needs another tool telling them the problem is endless meetings and pointless process. It’ll get bolted into their ecosystem, probably making everything even more complicated. They claim it will “supercharge” Atlassian’s Atlas product (because that needed supercharging…right). Expect integration headaches, feature overlap, and a whole lot of upselling.

The founders are getting rich, naturally. Because that’s always the point. And we, the poor sods actually *using* this stuff? We get more dashboards. Fantastic. Just fucking fantastic.

Honestly, I’m starting to think Atlassian is just buying up companies to absorb their talent and quietly kill off anything useful while integrating the rest into Jira as another unrequested feature. Don’t quote me on that though… it’s probably just paranoia. Probably.

Source: TechCrunch – Atlassian Acquires DX for $1B

Speaking of productivity, I once had a sysadmin try to explain the benefits of a new ticketing system. He spent three hours detailing its features while our servers were actively on fire. Three. Hours. I swear, some people just *want* to watch the world burn… and then track it in a spreadsheet.

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