Performance engineering is a big deal when you're serving millions of users from every corner of the globe. We previously wrote about a large engineering transformation program for Jira and Confluence, which we codenamed Vertigo – read more about the overall program here.
As part of the Vertigo program, we knew we were going to have to invest a lot of engineering effort into performance, and, in particular, the performance of Jira. While we have always spent time over the years improving Jira’s performance using the tools and architecture at hand, the Vertigo architecture brought a host of new opportunities to further improve the performance and reliability of Jira.