ChatOps for Developers
Lee Fox
May 2, 2016
ChatOps and Operations
• Spin up/down servers
• Look at performance metrics
• Deploy code
• Grab log files
• Update configurations
ChatOps: Not Just for Operations
• Developers
• Office Managers
• QA Engineers
• Scrum Masters
• Customer Service
Keeping Abreast of News
Finding Documentation
Report on Sprints
Ordering Food
http://www.wired.com/2016/04/future-‐work-‐ordering-‐taco-‐bell-‐slack/
Human Resources Questions
Birthday Announcements
Look for Questions
• Questions with static answers
• Questions that are annoying to answer
Look for Repetition
• What tasks are done again and again?
• What tasks could other people kick off if they
only had a way to do it?
Look for Annoyance
• Find tasks that torque you off.
• Find things you hate to do.
Look for Laziness
• Look for your laziest developer
• Give him/her a ChatOps framework
• Make him/her do all of the things you just
identified