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Atlassian Rebuilds Metrics Pipeline Around OpenTelemetry at Massive Scale

Matt Saunders — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Software company Atlassian has published an account of its migration from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, replacing the internal workings of a metrics platform that receives data from about 100,000 hosts across 14 regions. The existing service had a 99.95% SLO, so the team had to change the platform without disrupting the metrics used by production alerts.

By Matt Saunders

Stateless MCP Removes Session Affinity Requirements for AWS Server Deployments

Leela Kumili — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:58:00 GMT

AWS details how the latest Model Context Protocol specification removes protocol-level sessions, sticky-session requirements, and session storage for remote MCP servers. The change enables independent request routing and simpler horizontal scaling while shifting application state, retries, observability, and idempotency concerns to other layers.

By Leela Kumili