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About a month ago, I attended my first Atlassian Connect Week in Austin, Texas. If you haven’t heard about Connect Week before, you’re not alone. It’s a relatively new event series that Atlassian started in 2016. These events are targeted at Atlassian Marketplace developers: if you have an app idea,…

Abstract Lucidchart is a collaborative diagramming SaaS application. This session’s speakers have been transitioning from a monolithic CakePHP application to a services-oriented RESTful system based solely on Scala. They discuss their decision to ditch PHP and how they ended up with a working set of services. First, they explain their…

Microsoft Apps for Office 2013 allows us to provide our customers with a simple way to insert their Lucidchart diagrams into Word documents. In this article, I’d like to walk you through the process of building an Office App and give a brief overview of the Lucidchart app that we…

Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published on the Atlassian Confluence blog and is republished below with permission from the author. If you’ve ever worked inside Confluence, you probably know that it has a flexible plugin model that allows third parties to add new functionality and features. Traditionally, creating a…