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Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B


Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet by buying DX so it can offer a developer productivity tool.

At the time, he felt the metrics he was using as a product manager at GitHub weren’t giving him the full picture, and he wanted to build something better that didn’t make developers feel like they were being surveilled. Atlassian co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes told TechCrunch that after trying to build an in-house developer productivity insight tool for three years, his Sydney, Australia-based company realized it made sense to look for an external, existing option. “DX has done an amazing job [of] understanding the qualitative and quantitative aspects of developer productivity and turning that into actions that can improve those companies and give them insights and comparisons to others in their industry, others at their size, etc.,” Cannon-Brookes said.

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