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Being an efficiency and productivity freak, I always try to streamline and automate repetitive tasks. As such, my antennas went up immediately when I started hearing about Provisioning frameworks; I began to incorporate them more and more in my development workflow. A perfect opportunity to take advantage of this came up while ramping up as Developer Advocate here at Atlassian. Have you heard of Vagrant yet? It is awesome. Why? It automates much of the boilerplate work we developers have to endure

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As a software company boasting 15 products and add-ons, as well as dozens of plugins for them, Atlassian builds a lot of code.  I mean, a LOT of code. We're also famous for eating our own dogfood, so of course we use Bamboo to orchestrate it all.  Conducting the orchestra is a small and dedicated team of nerds we creatively call "Build Engineering".  This team manages multiple Bamboo instances, each with well over 100 Plans and scores of agents to do the work. The agents allow us to

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