JIRA Worklogs Bot: A System Design Document for Simplifying Time Tracking

Original version was published in October 2025, updated: January 2026

This is a system design document for a Microsoft Teams bot that replaces JIRA’s clunky worklog UI with a single-view Adaptive Card interface.

JIRA Worklogs Bot: System Design Document

What This Document Covers

This is a complete system design for a Teams bot that solves the weekly pain of JIRA time reporting:

  • Problem analysis and design goals
  • Microsoft Teams Adaptive Card interface design
  • Spring Boot 3 + AWS Lambda backend architecture
  • Data flow and API contracts
  • Load simulation and performance SLOs
  • Production readiness checklist and evolution roadmap

Estimated reading time: 20-25 minutes

Who This Is For

  • Engineers frustrated with JIRA’s worklog UI
  • Teams developers building Adaptive Card integrations
  • Backend engineers designing serverless Java applications
  • System designers evaluating AWS Lambda for low-traffic, bursty workloads
  • Anyone interested in load analysis for realistic traffic patterns

The document includes the actual Adaptive Card JSON structure, sequence diagrams, data models, and a mathematical load simulation proving that a single Lambda function handles the Friday afternoon spike comfortably.

Questions or improvements? Open an issue on the repo or e-mail me.

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