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ChatOps at GitHub - Jesse Newland

Jesse Newland describes how GitHub uses Hubot, its chat bot, to run operations such as deployment, monitoring, graphing and provisioning from chat rooms. He explains how this improves shared awareness and remote work culture.

Why HN readers recommended it

The go-to reference for ChatOps, recommended for the idea of chat as a shared command line where teammates learn by watching.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Rubyfuza
Topic
chatops
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
6
Recommendation years in dataset
2013–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Absolutely. As I mentioned, we have 150+ rooms that we chill in, and most of our day-to-day work practices are tied into chat. Mention someone's name in a room they're not present in and we send push notifications to their phone and desktop- works great …

    holman on Hacker News · 2013-11
    In How GitHub No Longer Works
  • There's a pretty good talk on "chatops" by the guys at GitHub[0]. Basically, it provides a dialog around a "shared command-line" where developers from learn from each other by simply watching chat. I think it's more beneficial to distributed companies. However, my question for those …

    jzelinskie on Hacker News · 2015-12
    In Slack Platform Launch

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