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Where Automattic Meets Up
Sharing Where We Stay Automattic is fully distributed, with no headquarters. A few times a year, teams meet in person at places like a villa in Tuscany, a beach house on the Outer Banks, or a cabin outside Boulder. Over time, we’ve built a valuable list of team-tested retreat spots: places that work for fifteen…
Behind the Fiber-Optic Rope: Engineering WordCamp
Networking engineer Tyler Leeds explains how Automattic delivered rock-solid livestreamg from WordCamp Asia—and what’s on tap for WordCamp EU in June.
How WordPress Sent a Dog (and a Pop Culture Brand) to the Moon
The Pop Culture Monday site—and newsletter, and podcast—is an fun and irreveratnt testament to WordPress’s flexibility.
WordPress: The Operating System of the Agentic Web
The very things that made WordPress successful as a human platform make it even more powerful as an agentic one.
The One Thing That Changed How I Work
Paolo Belcastro, Artistic Director for Automattic’s Domains Maison, pens a thoughtful piece about what he learned from coaching.
“One For My Baby”
For one Automattician, paid parental leave turned out to be “the best benefit I got in my life.”
(Almost) No Downtime MariaDB Upgrades
From time to time, our systems engineers write up a case study detailing a notable moment on the infrastructure front lines. The latest comes from Andrija Vucinic, an Automattician on our Systems Operations team, who is upgrading our fleet of database servers to MariaDB 11.8.
What Automattic’s AI Enablement Training Means for WordPress
Automattic recently brought a group of employees to New York City for two weeks of intensive AI training. Birgit Pauli-Haack shares what the team built, what changed, and what it means for the WordPress ecosystem.
Recent Announcements
A Modest Server-Centric Development Proposal
Automattician Sérgio Gomes argues that JavaScript-heavy approaches like React aren’t compatible with long-term performance goals.
How Bedfordshire Bird Club Flies High
One redesign later, the club has a modern, mobile-friendly site that puts essential birding information right where it’s needed: in members’ hands.
Automattic Welcomes Stephen Wolfram as Special Advisor
For decades, Stephen has been committed to a singular vision around computation and knowledge, and we’re honored to have him join.
Why One Podcast Pro Only Has Ears for Pocket Casts
There’s liking podcasts, and then there’s Arielle Nissenblatt.
Defending Open Source: Clear, Compelling Counterclaims in our Litigation Against WP Engine
Automattic was founded on a commitment to open source, and we have been dedicated to protecting that promise ever since. Our support of WordPress has helped democratize publishing and build a vibrant community—one that now powers tens of millions of websites. WP Engine began providing hosting services for WordPress users in 2010, making largely nominative…
“Sync Overload”—And How to Avoid It
You might think that, as a remote, fully distributed company, we spend half our time stuck in Zoom meetings. But the truth is just the opposite.
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