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DevOps

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.

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DevOps

Governing Agentic AI Safely: Zero Trust and Compliance for AI Agents

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.

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XALT News

XALT Achieves the Atlassian Software Development Specialization: What It Means for Our Customers

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

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XALT News

Agentic AI in the Enterprise: Why Context Matters More Than Prompting

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.

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XALT News

Atlassian Cloud Bound Munich: The Future of Teamwork Is Cloud-Native and AI-Powered

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.

IT Service Management

Jira Service Management Implementation: Modern ITSM That Employees Love

ITSM doesn't have to be complicated. Jira Service Management proves that powerful service management and great user experience go hand in hand.

IT Service Management

Enterprise Service Management: When Service Principles Reach Every Department

ITSM has transformed IT. Enterprise Service Management takes the same principles and applies them to HR, Legal, Finance, Facility Management, and every other department.

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XALT News

Growing Tomorrow's IT Talent at XALT

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.

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DevOps

Shift Left: Catching Bugs Earlier in Your Development Cycle

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.

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DevOps

Release Management with Jira: Fixing Problems, Streamlining Processes, Securing Quality

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

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DevOps

Post-Incident Review Best Practices for Jira Service 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.

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XALT News

XALT Is Now an Atlassian Platinum Solution Partner!

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

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DevOps

Self-Service: Meaning and Challenges

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.

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DevOps

What Is Developer Self-Service? An Overview

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

Webinar: Platform Engineering – AWS account setup with JSM
DevOps

Webinar Recap: Platform Engineering – AWS Account Setup With JSM

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

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DevOps

What Is Platform Engineering?

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.

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DevOps

A Comparison of Popular Container Orchestration Tools

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

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XALT News

The XALT Summer Team Event 2023

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.

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DevOps

Deep Dive: Monitoring and Observability for DevOps Teams

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

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DevOps

DevOps: Advanced Techniques for Optimizing Your Build-Test-Deploy (CI/CD) Pipeline

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

DevSecOps in manufacturing
DevOps

DevSecOps in Manufacturing

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

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XALT News

Customer Focus: XALT as Part of the Team

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.

DevSecOps glossary
DevOps

DevSecOps Glossary

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

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DevOps

The Essential Role of Security in DevSecOps

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

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