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Update: Read the update from 2019 about our code-generated art being used to create original artworks. Crafting tools and making them better is human nature. JetBrains has built its business on this tradition, by creating tools which developers love using daily and which automate the routine parts of their jobs. Almost 2 years ago, we shared a story of how we create artwork at JetBrains, along wi

Six years ago, the YouTrack team started developing an Agile board in YouTrack (our issue tracker and agile project management tool). At JetBrains, dogfooding is one of the key principles of product development. So while building a tool for our customers that conformed to the main principles of an agile framework, we knew we had to experience Agile firsthand. That’s when we decided to adopt Scrum.

Update: Read the update from 2018 about our approach to creating product artwork. Most of us who write code treat it as something special, more than just a bunch of characters stored in files. A lot of experience, thought and trial and error is put into it. For many, coding is creating and the code is their art. Some believe software development is rather art than science. And while we can't se

Overview TeamCity was started back in 2005 out of our own need to have a flexible and powerful continuous integration server that could deliver functionality beyond the offerings that were available at the time. Since then, much of the functionality in TeamCity has been as much a result of our own requirements as that of our users, as we continue to use it throughout JetBrains daily. While it pr