Tag: Slack

The DevOps Long Tail of Salesforce’s Slack Buy
While most of the focus on the acquisition of Slack this week by Salesforce for $27.7 billion clearly revolves around digital business transformation initiatives, the implications of the deal for DevOps teams ...

AWS Aligns With Slack to Foster Dev Team Collaboration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Slack Technologies have formed an alliance through which they are moving to transform the way development teams collaborate. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Slack will ...

CTO.ai Launches SlackOps Tool for DevOps
CTO.ai has launched SlackOps, a platform for managing DevOps workflows in real-time via the Slack communications and collaboration service. Company CEO Kyle Campbell said many DevOps teams are embracing Slack to share ...

Atlassian Acquires Halp to Gain Help Desk Based on Slack
Atlassian this week announced it has acquired Halp, a provider of a help desk platform that employs Slack as its user interface. Steve Goldsmith, head of product integrations at Atlassian, said Halp ...

Automation Hacks for DevOps Teams
DevOps teams are expected to do more work in less time. They need to plan, test, build, secure and release applications at a fast-paced rate. Of course, the DevOps team needs to ...

The Accelerating Cloud Wars
Enterprises have embraced cloud computing at a phenomenal clip, according to newly-released report, A for Adoption, from cloud access security broker provider Bitglass. Over the past five years, the report found cloud ...

6 Must-Haves When Using Chat for Incident Management
Over the last few years, teams have realized the benefits of sharing and distributing knowledge in chat applications such as Slack. Today, teams are extending the use of these applications beyond collaboration ...

SauceCon Speaker Profile: Shivani Sharma, Slack
Just Say No to Flaky Tests: Releasing Code with Confidence Shivani Sharma doesn’t like anything flaky—unless it’s baked goods. Shivani is senior engineering manager at Slack, working on test automation for Slack’s ...

ChatOps: Has the Fat Lady Already Sung?
One of the sometimes unsung stars of the DevOps scene is ChatOps. I have heard lots of folks use the term, but what does it really mean to you? ChatOps is a ...

DevOps: Here’s How to Slack Securely
With 1.7 million daily active users, it’s clear Slack has come to dominate the team chat world, especially in the tech industry. This, however, means that a fair amount of security is ...

4 Top Tips for Developing a New Feature
As a backend developer at CA BlazeMeter, I recently had the chance to work on a big feature for our web app. The feature required a massive change on our backend code, ...

Confident Financial Solutions is cutting edge with ChatOps for log monitoring
If I told you a company named Confident Financial Solutions is on the front line of adopting DevOps methods to better serve their customers you might say, “Come again?” Let’s face it ...