Atlassian CTO: Great Quarter, AWS is Awesome, Not Talking about GCP Takeover Rumours…
Summary
Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath doesn’t want to talk about persistent speculation that the company is being eyed by an acquisition-happy Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Atlassian , founded in 2002 – and best known for its proprietary issue/bug tracking product Jira, used widely through the DevOps tool chain – is indeed growing strongly. Over the full calendar year the reinvestment figure is “roughly” 35-40 percent of revenues going back into product development, Viswanath says. A major strategic push is a focus on IT, the former Groupon CTO and VMware veteran tells Computer Business Review: “IT teams are becoming more like software teams”. Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath notes: “The general premise with microservices is having smaller teams that can move faster, focus on business logic.