This document summarizes a talk given by Seb Ruiz of Atlassian about the state and future of Atlassian Connect. The talk discussed how Connect has grown from its launch a year ago to now support over 30 add-ons and 4,500 installations. It outlined Atlassian's plans to focus on platform robustness, support more integration points and products like OnPremise, Bitbucket and HipChat. The talk concluded by stating Atlassian's vision is for Connect to become the best integrations platform and for its patterns to become standard, unlocking huge opportunities for developers.

1. June 3-5, 2014 | Berlin, Germany

2. Seb Ruiz, Dev Manager, Atlassian
Atlassian Connect
State of the Union

4. • Today: scale, performance, stability!
• Tomorrow: where do we want to be in 10 years?
Why build Connect

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7. How does Connect work?

8. UI Integrations
Add-on
Javascript API
Add-on rendered in
iframe
• Isolated CSS and Javascript
• Security management

9. UI Integrations
• UI integration can look
native!
• Design guidelines!
• Common UI patterns!
• Javascript and HTML
patterns/libraries

10. • Retrieve and render data within UI!
• Increasing surface area!
• Committed to backwards compatibility
REST APIs

11. • Event notification system
Webhooks
Add-on

12. • Not locked into Java!
• Use your own dev stack!
• No compiling against
Atlassian products!
Business Logic
Add-on

13. • JSON file defining add-on!
• Marketplace automatically
updates and manages
versioning
Descriptor
{
"baseUrl": “http://my-addon.com“,
"key": "atlassian-connect-jira-addon",
"description": "Add-on which demonstrates usage of Atlassi
"name": "Example Connect JIRA Add-on",
"vendor": {
"name": "Atlassian",
"url": "http://www.atlassian.com/"
},
"enableLicensing": true,
"authentication": {
"type": "jwt"
},
"lifecycle": {
"installed": "/installed"
},
"modules": {
"webItems": [
{
"name": {
"value": "My dropdown"
},
"location": "system.top.navigation.bar",
"url": "/hello-world",
"key": "dropdown",
"tooltip": {
"value": "My JIRA Connect Add-on",
"i18n": "foo.bar"
}

14. Architecture
Add-on
UI
Product APIs
Data Store Data Store
Business Logic
HTML JS CSS
DescriptorAdd-ons

15. 1 year ago
May 2013

16. • We barely had a platform!
• We had no add-ons in OnDemand!
• But we had a dream and big plans
One year ago…

17. • Atlassian Connect 1.0 – March!
• 35 milestone releases since last AtlasCamp!
• Releasing ~ every 2 weeks into production
• Atlassian Connect 1.1 – June
Today…

18. • JSON Descriptor!
• JWT authentication!
• Lots of new features!
• JIRA entity properties, Confluence REST APIs, better
client libraries, js history, cookie support, Confluence
mobile, macro body improvements, auth tokens, web
sections, inline dialogs and more
Today…

19. Today…
33 public add-ons
4500 installations
Since March:

20. Where are we going?

21. • Focusing on the platform!
• Unlocking more security features!
• Robustness – analytics, testing, incident processes!
• Enterprise – i18n
Table Stakes

22. • JIRA & Confluence still a priority!
• Consolidate and grow!
• Unlocking more integration points with Connect
Table Stakes

23. • OnPremise Support!
• HipChat!
• Bitbucket
Top Priorities

24. • Connect is currently for OnDemand only!
• Connect is future of platform - we need to serve every
customer
OnPremise

25. • No ecosystem - huge growth and potential!
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• Bringing the same patterns to Bitbucket and HipChat!
• Descriptor, REST API, Webhooks, UI Integration
Bitbucket and HipChat
HipChat: 10x growthBitbucket: 2M users

26. Going Big

27. • Atlassian Connect will be the best integrations
platform on the market
• Atlassian Marketplace will be the best distribution
platform for your add-ons
The world is SaaS

28. • Publishing standard patterns!
• Implement Connect for your Service!
• Enable integrations into your products!
Atlassian Connect Patterns

30. • Atlassian Connect is going BIG!
• Get on board today!!
• Questions?
Huge opportunities