Confluence has an all new REST API and a host of other improvements for developers. Now it's even easier to build amazing extensions to Confluence, whether it's with Atlassian Connect or our Plugin SDK. Learn what our Confluence engineers have been working on and what's coming up for Confluence in the next year.

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

2. Matt Ryall, Head of Confluence Engineering, Atlassian
Collaboration Family
“State of the Union”
@mryall

3. • Confluence developer of old (’06)
• Managing Confluence for 2 years
• Building a great platform
• Enjoy skiing
• … but always seem to be in
Europe at the wrong time!
Matt Ryall
PLATFORM

4. What is the
“Collaboration Family”?

5. Atlassian exists to unleash the
potential in every team to advance
humanity through the power of
software.
– Atlassian’s mission
”
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6. Atlassian exists to unleash the
potential in every team to advance
humanity through the power of
software.
– Atlassian’s mission
”
“ every team

8. PayingUsers
Jun 2012 Sep 2012 Dec 2012 Mar 2013 Jun 2013 Sep 2013 Dec 2013 Mar 2014
10x
growth

9. Started with a team of three
Pete
Garret
Chris

10. Now a team of 26

11. We colonised the new
office in Austin, TX

12. HipChat keeps getting better

13. Shiny New API

14. HipChat Video

16. • We’ve already announced HipChat
Server (BTF)
• Native clients have been releasing
updates twice a month
• Improved quality, speed and features,
like in-app search
Much more to come

17. What can I build for HipChat?

18. Lots you can do!
1. Send notifications to rooms
2. Send private messages
3. Listen for messages (bots)
4. Add /slash commands
5. Watch for people
6. Create rooms on the fly & invite people
7. Embed a chat room in another site!

19. HipChat Integrations today

20. Two types of integration
Atlassian Connect add-onHipChat Remote API

21. 1. Remote APIs
2. Webhooks
3. UI integrations
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22. +

23. • Fastest growing product at Atlassian
• Incredibly high user engagement
• Has the potential to touch every team
• Team updates all collect in HipChat
• Real-time interaction possibilities
• Green field: not many add-ons yet
Why build for HipChat?

24. That adds up to
HUGE
potential

25. Build your next great add-on
for HipChat

26. • Building add-ons for HipChat
• HipChat v2 API
• HipChat Server
• See Will at 3.45pm tomorrow
More on HipChat

28. Space Information Architecture
Space Shortcuts
Collapsible Sidebar
Confluence Questions
Atlassian Connect
REST APIs
Task Reports
Knowledge Base Space
Decisions Blueprint
Requirements Blueprint
Agile Planning
Retrospectives
MyTasks Enterprise
Team Spaces
Product Requirements
File Lists
Attachment Previews
Instructional text
Group Autocomplete
Global Create
Image PropertiesMultiple layouts
Distraction-free editing
Spaces dropdown
Email redesign
Space Blueprints
Roadmap macro
JIRA issues macro
JIRA charts
Team Calendars 4
Team Calendars Performance
What a year!
Shared Links Blueprint
Performance at scale
New Search UI
Documentation Space
Attachment Previews
Meetings Blueprint
Meetings Blueprint
Due Dates
High Availability Request access to pages
Create issues from pages
Event Types
Mobile improvements
Space Shortcuts
Search Algorithm
Atlassian Design Guidelines
Event Types
Rename User
Page properties

29. Confluence: by the numbers
>40% 17,000+
first half, FY 2014
YoY bookings growth
April 2014
active customers

30. Growing team
PLATFORM
SydneySaigon

31. Worldwide ecosystem team

32. SOFTWARE TEAMS BUSINESS TEAMS NEW MARKETS
ENTERPRISE SCALE
PLATFORM

33. SOFTWARE TEAMS BUSINESS TEAMS NEW MARKETS
ENTERPRISE SCALE
PLATFORM

34. JIRA integration
SOFTWARE TEAMS

35. Coming soon: visual roadmaps
SOFTWARE TEAMS

36. SOFTWARE TEAMS BUSINESS TEAMS NEW MARKETS
ENTERPRISE SCALE
PLATFORM

37. Improved Tasks
BUSINESS TEAMS

38. Tasks for team events!
BUSINESS TEAMS

39. • Standardise business use-cases
• Control create dialog behaviour
• Space and page blueprints
• Encourage organised content
• Soon: OnDemand Connect
blueprints
Blueprints
BUSINESS TEAMS

40. SOFTWARE TEAMS BUSINESS TEAMS NEW MARKETS
ENTERPRISE SCALE
PLATFORM

41. • Built on the Confluence
platform
• Embedded lightweight
Confluence editor
• Notify by label
• Soon: AO/Hibernate
queries
Confluence Questions
NEW MARKETS

42. Confluence Questions
NEW MARKETS
350+
active customers

43. SOFTWARE TEAMS BUSINESS TEAMS NEW MARKETS
ENTERPRISE SCALE
PLATFORM

44. Confluence Data Center
ENTERPRISE
• Rewrite of Confluence clustering
• 9+ months of work for team
• Moved to Hazelcast cache
• Fixed many reliability issues
• Performance tested
• Running in production at Atlassian,
and soon with pioneer customers

45. SOFTWARE TEAMS BUSINESS TEAMS NEW MARKETS
ENTERPRISE SCALE
PLATFORM

46. There is a strong argument that
platforms beat products every time …
If you have opened your product so that
third parties can add value, and
you have designed the rules of the
ecosystem such that they want to,
your innovation curve is going to be faster.
– Marshall Van Alstyne
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47. USS Confluence Platform
Services
Core Experience

48. !
API

49. • Consistent REST & Java APIs
• Catching up with JIRA, others on
“REST is best” strategy for remote API
• Content APIs: spaces, pages, blogs,
comments, attachments, labels, history
• Fully supported, API compatibility rules
New APIs: REST & Java
PLATFORM
!
API

50. • Legacy RPC, SOAP APIs are deprecated
• Only REST API will be extended
• Extension/changes will be done carefully
• Public/private/experimental APIs
• Your help needed: scenarios where you
find the REST API lacking
REST API: what it means
PLATFORM
!
API

51. • Experimental confluence-api module
• Moving away from “all Confluence code
is API” – enable us to evolve the core
• Building out in parallel with REST
• Parts will be final within 12 months
• Your help needed: start using the API!
Java API: what it means
PLATFORM
!
API

52. • Details, examples for Confluence REST
• Content properties API
• Upcoming: CQL search API
• See Steve at 2pm
More on APIs
PLATFORM

53. Scaling development
PLATFORM
SydneySaigon

54. • Modularity is a priority
• Building features as plugins
• New APIs to enable core evolution
• Core code increased by only 1%
since 2013
• We’re “Ecosystem” developers too!
Scaling development
PLATFORM

55. Confluence & Connect
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56. Confluence OnDemand#Customers
Mar 12 Jun 12 Sep 12 Dec 12 Mar 13 Jun 13 Sep 13 Dec 13 Mar 14
OnDemand BTF Both
>30%
OnDemand

57. Confluence OnDemand
>50%
choose OnDemand
Confluence evaluators

58. • Visualise your ideas!
• Organise your pages!
• Choose boards!
• Project Retrospective!
• Product Roadmap!
• SWOT Analysis
Comalatech Canvas
CONNECT

59. • Attach files in cloud
storage to Confluence
Pages!
• Attach or link!
• Multiple files
!
Ink File Picker
CONNECT

60. 1. UI integration
2. Macros
3. REST API
4. Blueprints
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61. • Connect APIs
• Building Connect macros
• Upcoming Connect Blueprints
• See Matt at 2pm tomorrow
More on Confluence + Connect
CONNECT

62. Huge opportunities with growing products
Great new APIs: try them out
Connect & OnDemand is the future
Collaboration Family