If you have stumbled upon The Startup Zeitgeist post on HackerNews then as a operations person there is one thing you can not miss: the emergence of Slack and chatops ecosystem surrounding it. Slack has definitely disrupted how we communicate with teams and with machines too. But beyond just team communication – such tools have enabled a lot more:

• All operations are now known to team instead of known to one member. The handoff between team members is transparent and seamless.
• A lot more teams can participate in querying or modifying infrastructure based on access control while also keeping the whole thing visible
• A continuous log & audit trail of activities is maintained which is also searchable.

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