The Agent Harness: The Real Foundation of Enterprise AI

Why the agent harness – not the AI model or the generated code – determines the success of enterprise AI initiatives, and how to build one in five steps.

AI agents are transforming the enterprise at speed – and the risk is growing just as fast. How the "in dubio pro securitate" principle, formal verification, and zero trust keep agentic AI safe and compliant.

Agentic coding without the hallucination drama: a session start, 10 disciplined steps, and a failsafe at every one – the XALT workflow for reproducible AI coding results.

XALT has achieved the Atlassian Software Development Specialization – official confirmation that we deliver real value to software development organizations, from prioritization to developer productivity.

Why the next AI leap for enterprises won't come from better prompts, but from better context – insights from XALT founder Philipp Göllner at the Atlassian Community Event in Leipzig.

Our recap from Atlassian Connect: Cloud Bound in Munich – featuring a live Rovo demo, the Teamwork Graph, the new Fast Shift migration program, and the key takeaways for XALT customers.

Rovo is becoming the AI layer for Atlassian’s System of Work: news about Rovo Search, Chat, agents, Studio, governance and the Teamwork Graph.

XALT sponsored the Start MUNICH Hackathon with its own challenge around Advanced Jira Issue Sync – and came away not just with fresh ideas, but with new working students, too.

Bugs found late cost time, money, and trust. The shift-left approach moves testing and quality assurance as early as possible into the development cycle.

Unclear ownership, manual steps, and time pressure turn releases into chaos. Here's how Jira brings structure, automation, and quality to your release management.

A post-incident review is more than a closing report – it helps you understand root causes, improve processes, and draw valuable lessons from every incident. Here's how to run one effectively in Jira Service Management.

XALT has achieved Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner status – a milestone after 10 years of XALT and Atlassian, bringing even more benefits to our customers.

Without self-service, companies drown in administrative tasks. We explain what self-service is, which challenges it solves, and which tools you can use to build it.

What developer self-service is, the types that exist, its advantages and drawbacks, and how it works in practice – a comprehensive overview.

Transform your cloud infrastructure with Platform Engineering and JSM Cloud – our webinar shows you how.

Platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service – we explain the terms, the differences between them, and walk through a real-world example built on Jira Service Management and AWS.

Kubernetes, Amazon ECS, and Azure Container Apps compared head-to-head: features, benefits, use cases, and a comparison table to help you decide.

Two days, one goal: strengthening team spirit. A recap of the XALT Summer Event 2023 at our Leipzig office – packed with strategy workshops, icebreakers, and quality time together.

Concepts, best practices, and tools: how monitoring and observability help DevOps teams catch problems earlier and ship software faster and more reliably.

From incremental builds to blue/green deployments: advanced techniques DevOps teams use to fine-tune their build-test-deploy pipeline.

Manufacturers are increasingly becoming software companies. DevSecOps helps them break down silos, build in security from the start, and stay competitive.

How XALT partnered with Fath and Atlassian to deliver the largest cloud migration in the DACH region to date – and why customer focus comes first.

From Agile to vulnerability scanning: the key DevSecOps terms explained in one place.

DevOps ships fast – but speed without security is risky. Why DevSecOps brings development and security together, and how companies benefit.

A structured guide to troubleshooting distributed systems – from post-mortem analysis to post-incident review.

From clear ownership to chaos testing: 10 best practices for running microservices reliably in production.

How DevSecOps builds security into the entire development process – with real-world examples from Capital One and eBay, and metrics for measuring success.

Mulled wine for a good cause: how TEAM XALT raised money at the Leipzig Christmas market for Elternhilfe für krebskranke Kinder Leipzig e.V.

Infrastructure as code replaces manual server configuration with machine-readable definition files. Here are the benefits, the challenges, and the key tools.

BSH Hausgeräte won the Inkometa Award in the Social Intranet / Collaboration Intranet category – for the intranet built together with XALT.

Inspired by Joel Spolsky's legendary checklist: the 11 principles XALT lives by for version control, builds, bug tracking, and engineering culture.

DevOps knowledge, secure SDLC, application security, cloud infrastructure, and communication: the five skills that define a DevSecOps engineer.

DevOps automation enables faster, more consistent deployments and fewer manual errors. We cover the typical challenges and how to get started.

New to DevOps? A crash course on automation, monitoring, CI/CD, and the culture you need to get started successfully.

Mistakes happen – the question is whether you learn from them. How to build a blameless post-mortem culture in your DevOps organization, illustrated by Facebook's 2021 outage.

Late last year, we launched Container8 – a DevOps as a Service platform. At Serview Festival, Benjamin Nothdurft of codecentric AG showed exactly how it works in practice in a live keynote.