SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 15, 2017) - Today on stage at Structure 2017, Atomist is formally launching and unveiling its Development Automation Platform with an Open Source client and API. As part of today's launch, Atomist is announcing $22 million in Series A funding from Accel and Matrix Partners.
Atomist's Development Automation Platform brings event-driven automation to the practice of software development and delivery. Automation is commonplace in other areas of IT, but developers have lacked a way to automate many difficult and tedious aspects of shipping great software. By reducing toil, developers can focus on what really adds value: creating new projects, shipping features, and continuously improving existing code. With Atomist, developers finally have an automation platform of their own instead of having to make do with systems designed for others.
"We care deeply about helping developers focus on what really matters," said Atomist co-founder and CEO Rod Johnson. Johnson created the popular Spring Framework and founded SpringSource which was acquired by VMware in 2009. "Frameworks solve generic problems so that developers can add value in areas where they offer unique competitive advantage. But frameworks can only shoulder some of the overall burdens of development. Automation is the next frontier."
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Atomist's unique technology comprehends the structure and context of a team's software projects and process. Atomist uses traditional techniques such as parser generators, along with a novel technology called microgrammars, to parse and contextualize code. It correlates event streams from activity at the various stages of development, and represents them as a model of code, people, and process in a graph database. This innovative model provides the critical knowledge that Atomist uses to automate tricky tasks that require a rich understanding of a team's code and process.
Atomist makes starting new projects easy by automating the creation of Git repos, ready for use with no manual steps required. Atomist applies transforms to a source project to convert it into a new one, doing away with hard to maintain templates. Atomist also configures existing systems for issue tracking and continuous integration, and creates chat channels for notifications and actions on the project, so that developers can be instantly productive.
By tapping into Atomist's insight into their environment, developers gain visibility and control over the entire delivery process. The right information and context is delivered to the right people, where they can take immediate action, like initiating a release from a button in Slack. By tracking and alerting on critical stages of the development process, Atomist reduces the time teams spend checking build status, waiting for code reviews and approvals, and pending releases that are ready to go. Atomist helps teams ship faster.
Atomist's understanding of code and project context enables developers to automate the software improvement process. Rolling out framework and library updates across projects is a snap as Atomist automatically creates the necessary code changes on a new branch and raises a pull request in each project to be updated, whether one or one hundred projects need the update.
Atomist is the automation API and programming model for your developer tools with native Slack integration for notifications and commands. Teams can customize Atomist's built-in automations by modifying how events get handled or formatting notifications, or writing wholly new automations to capture their unique development flow. Unlike statically defined workflows, Atomist's event-driven model means that teams can compose and evolve flexible development flows based on events.
With an open source client, command-line interface and GraphQL API, it's easy to get started developing automations, then deploy and run them in the cloud or self-hosted. Atomist is the API for software.
"The velocity of application development is most dependent on automation," said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst with RedMonk. "Atomist is built on this concept, seeking to automate and integrate the entire length of a developer's toolchain."
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About Atomist
Atomist aims to free developers from toil so they can concentrate on work that adds business value. With the Atomist Development Automation Platform, developers can create, ship, and continuously improve their software faster than ever before. Atomist was founded in 2015, is headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Accel and Matrix Partners. For more information, visit atomist.com or @atomist.
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