When we announced Stride in September 2017, we said, “It’s time we rethink the way we’re working. We believe that teams can stay connected and keep moving forward.” We still believe that. We knew we were taking a risk by entering an already competitive real-time team communications market, but we were willing to do the hard work necessary to build a great product. And we believe we were on that path.

Over the past few years, we have accelerated into a fast-paced ‘everything now’ era. Endless tech-powered innovations are giving customers more choices than ever before. When developing new products and features, continuous delivery and rapid software release cycles are now the norms. Enterprises have to adapt, improve, and deliver solutions faster to stay competitive and meet changing customer needs.

In a recent study of software development teams using Jira Software, we found those that integrate with Bitbucket release 14% faster than those that don’t. For many industries where the pace of change is rapid and the market incredibly competitive, it’s this speed that can separate the great products in the eyes of users from the merely “good” ones.

Bug tracking is hard. Once more for your boss in the back. Bug tracking is hard! The support agent to developer handoff is a crucial yet an easily mishandled exchange. That’s bad news if you’re striving for low time-to-resolution targets and happy customers. Luckily, Atlassian and its app vendors provide an array of tools that can help you automate your bug resolution workflows to improve speed, consistency, and communication.

Supporting a growing software team is a daunting challenge, and Git is often at the heart of that task. Ensuring developers can effectively collaborate requires user provisioning, tool permissions, and enough horsepower to support all of the load. If you support a distributed team, the factors become more complex. How do you ensure developers have a consistent experience across geographies and help productivity flourish?

We surveyed 1,264 chat users to find out, and we started with two seemingly simple questions. What we learned was fascinating and inspiring, so we gathered up the data and created the team chat guide.

With the proliferation of virtualization and high availability architecture, teams are chasing 99.999% uptime like knights of old hunted unicorns. Many site reliability engineers find more comfort in the Boy Scouts’ motto, “Always be prepared.” Your company’s Git server is mission critical to the daily operations of engineering and everyone they support. How do you create business continuity in the face of unpredictable circumstances?

Now, you can watch repositories to get an email update with the latest commits or pull request updates. We’ve even added a fresh new look and a little something extra, just for fun. Read on to learn more, or get started with Bitbucket Server 5.10 now.

Bitbucket Cloud’s new chatbot features a wide range of notification types, plenty of interactivity, and some smart configuration features that will supercharge your team’s development workflow. The bot is available today for Slack and is coming soon to Atlassian Stride and other leading chat platforms.

Since launching Stride into early access last September, we’ve been thrilled by the excitement we’ve seen from the tens of thousands of teams who have adopted it as their communication platform.Now, six months in, we’re sharing an update on how organizations around the world are using Stride to move their work forward.