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How open source solutions help the U.S. Air Force accelerate software development and modernize collaboration

The pressure to ship quickly is greater than ever before. But for many organizations, including the U.S. Air Force, security and compliance concerns severely limit their ability to quickly adopt and integrate new technologies, putting teams at risk of being locked into approved vendors and missing out on critical innovations. In order break the cycle of slow-moving development, Platform One, the U.S.

Jira + Slack Integration: App Home - Demo Den October

David Michelson, a Product Manager on the Atlassian Slack integrations team, gives an overview of the Jira + Slack integration’s new App Home feature, where you can find and work on your most important Jira issues right in Slack. Check out this demo to learn how you can minimize switching between Slack and Jira throughout your day. Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel!

Stuff Happens: How Slack and PagerDuty Work Together to Resolve Incidents Quickly

Like death and taxes, IT incidents are inevitable. Issues like server outages and broken code are common—and costly. A single hour of downtime costs businesses more than $300,000 on average, according to Gartner. That’s why a solid incident management strategy is a must for any organization. “People solve incidents, but we can’t do it alone,” says Ali Rayl, Slack’s vice president of customer experience.

Mattermost integrations: Requesting data with slash commands

In the first two installments in this series, you learned you learned how to send alerts with incoming webhooks and request data with outgoing webhooks. In this article, you will learn how to set up a slash command. Slash commands are very similar to outgoing webhooks and even a little more powerful. To show their power in action, let’s find out how to use slash commands to request the temperature of a specific refrigerator.

Support for ESR 5.19 is ending soon

As of October 15, 2020, Mattermost Extended Support Release (ESR) version 5.19 is no longer supported. If any of your servers are not on ESR 5.25 or later, upgrading immediately is required. With our simple upgrade steps, it takes only a few minutes. Extended Support Releases are releases that will receive backports for high severity or high-impact security fixes for the length of their lifecycle.

Mattermost integrations: Sending and receiving data with outgoing webhooks

In a previous article, you learned how to receive data from an external source. In this article, you learn how to send a request or data to an external source using outgoing webhooks. As you learned from the first article in this series, we already receive alerts in Mattermost when the temperature of our fridge is too high. But what if we want to send a request to our fridges to give us the current temperature?

Improving performance (and more) through load testing

Have you ever wondered how many active users your application can handle at the same time? If so, you’re not alone. Here at Mattermost, we’re building a highly concurrent messaging platform for team collaboration that needs to potentially serve up to several thousands of users simultaneously.