An interesting use-case that I’ve bumped into lately is where folks want to enable automation, but they also need to know when automated things happen. Email was the common platform for notifications, and still is, but there are many more organizations adoption Slack for day-to-day activity monitoring and building out interesting interactive ways to enable … Read more
Remember Google Buzz? Orkut? Wave? Reader? Google Talk? Then there was Google Picasa…which became photos…so far. There are sites dedicated to what we call the Google Graveyard. This doesn’t even get into the Google Glass, Site Search, Search Appliance and others. I logged into my Google Analytics platform today and found it to be a … Read more
I stumbled upon Papertrail through a Twitter Ad (hey, those things work sometimes!) and figured that I should take a quick look. Given the amount of work I’ve been doing around compliance management and deployment of distributed systems, this seems like it may be an interesting fit. Luckily, they have a free tier as well … Read more
If ChatOps is something you’ve been hearing a lot about, there is is a reason. Slack is fast becoming the de facto standard in what we are calling ChatOps. Before we go full out into making chatbots and such, the first cool use-case I explored is enabling notifications for different systems. In order to do … Read more