Episode 34: Slack and the Safety Dance of Chaos Engineering

October 31, 2018 00:32:57
Episode 34: Slack and the Safety Dance of Chaos Engineering
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Episode 34: Slack and the Safety Dance of Chaos Engineering

Oct 31 2018 | 00:32:57

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Show Notes

In the early days, angry nerd corners on the Internet viewed Slack and some of its predecessors as, “Oh, it’s just IRC. Now, you pay someone for it.” Many fell into that trap of wondering about what value such systems offered.The big differentiator? Slack is built as a collaborative business tool.

Today, we’re talking to Holly Allen, who helped make government software better while  serving as the director of engineering at 18F. Now, she’s a senior engineering manager at Slack, a collaborative chat program where you can do most of your work through a rich platform of integrations. Holly enjoys taking a weird set of skills that make a computer do things and convincing people who know how to make computers do things do things.

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