Australian collaborationware company Atlassian has revealed it’s spent four years trying to reduce dangerous internal dependencies, and while it has rebuilt its PaaS, it still has issues – but thinks they’re now manageable.

As explained in a Tuesday post by Senior Engineering Manager Andrew Ross, “Atlassian runs a large service-based platform with thousands of different services, most deployed by our custom orchestration system, ‘Micros’.”

Micros handles over 2,000 services, 5,000-plus daily deploys, works on over 40,000 DynamoDB tables and 80,000-plus Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) tables. It also manages three million lambda functions.

Another piece of Atlassian’s infrastructure is a private Docker registry called “Artifactory.”

In 2021, Atlassian deployed Artifactory using

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