Architecting the Monolith-to-Modular Pipeline

Move faster without turning shared architecture into shared chaos. This technical session shows engineering leaders and platform teams how to design CI/CD as a true architecture layer, using Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Confluence, and Rovo agents to coordinate multi-stack teams, automate release decisions, validate shared contracts, and reduce manual handoffs across modular systems.


Modern engineering teams are under pressure to move faster while systems become more distributed, modular, and interdependent. As monoliths split into shared libraries, services, micro-frontends, and cross-platform layers, the hardest problems are no longer just build speed or deployment frequency. The real challenge is coordination: knowing who owns what, understanding which downstream systems are affected, validating changes before they spread, and keeping teams aligned without adding manual review bottlenecks.
This session explores why CI/CD must be treated as a first-class architecture component, not just an automation script at the end of development. Attendees will learn how Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Confluence, and Rovo agents can work together to create a smarter release engine: one that detects change impact, enforces contract-driven testing, manages deployment gates, updates documentation, and gives teams confidence to evolve shared core logic without destabilizing dependent applications.


By connecting modular architecture patterns with intelligent Atlassian workflows, this event shows how engineering organizations can achieve velocity without chaos. The focus is practical: designing guardrails that reduce friction, automating repetitive release coordination, and using AI-assisted agents to improve issue quality, release readiness, and team governance. Attendees will leave with a blueprint for building creative, automated delivery pipelines that support multi-stack teams at scale.


Event Objective
Help engineering teams design an automated, governed delivery pipeline that supports modular architecture, shared core logic, and cross-functional ownership without slowing teams down or increasing release risk.
Agenda

1. Welcome and Context: Why modular engineering breaks traditional CI/CD
2. From Monolith to Modular: Shared logic, dependency chains, and release friction
3. CI/CD as Architecture: Designing pipelines as a coordination system
4. Atlassian Workflow Layer: Jira triggers, Bitbucket deployment gates, and Confluence documentation
5. Rovo Agent Workshop: Building agents with instructions, knowledge, skills, tools, and automation
6. Guardrails at Scale: Code ownership, contract testing, matrix builds, and downstream validation
7. Automation Patterns: Agent-assisted issue review, release readiness checks, and Slack/Confluence updates
8. Wrap-Up: Practical blueprint for your own modular delivery pipeline

Key Takeaways

1. How to design multi-repo or monorepo pipelines that let teams update shared core logic safely.
2. How Jira, Bitbucket Pipelines, Confluence, and Rovo agents can reduce manual coordination across engineering stacks.
3. How to use contract testing, ownership rules, and matrix builds as confidence-building guardrails.
4. How to automate release readiness, documentation, issue review, and deployment gates.
5. How to treat CI/CD as a productized internal platform rather than a collection of scripts.


Target Audience

• Platform engineers,
• DevOps engineers,
• Engineering managers,
• Technical leads,
• Solution architects,
• Release managers,
• Full-stack teams working across modular systems, shared libraries, micro-frontends, mobile/web layers, or multi-repo product architectures.


Agenda (4:00 PM – 7:00 PM EAT)
4:00 – 4:15 PM: Check-in, introductions, and networking
4:15 – 5:15 PM: Architecting the Monolith-to-Modular Pipeline: Creative CI/CD for Multi-Stack Engineering Teams
5:15 – 6:00 PM: Level up your Rovo Agents: using instructions, knowledge, skills, tools, and automation to support engineering workflows
6:00 – 6:15 PM: Q&A and open discussion: security, ownership, governance, contract testing, and real-world rollout challenges
6:15 – 7:00 PM: Food, networking, photos, and closing announcements


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