[HN Gopher] What We Learned from Building GovSlack
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       What We Learned from Building GovSlack
        
       Author : atg_abhishek
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-02-05 18:00 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | ubertaco wrote:
       | This gives me bad flashbacks to Salesforce's GovCloud
       | implementation (likely mandated here for Slack), which is a
       | steaming nightmare mess of never-quite-consistently-working
       | disjointed CI servers (multiple per project), manual deployment
       | processes requiring 48-hour lead times for submitting requests
       | for approvals to deploy (with boilerplate paperwork manually
       | filled out about the artifact being deployed and the timeline of
       | the staggered deploy), and mandatory multi-day staggered
       | deployments with no automatic rollback, where all deployment
       | steps were required to be performed (again, manually) outside of
       | US business hours (no deploys between 8am eastern and 6pm eastern
       | will be approved, even for emergency fixes).
       | 
       | I fled from overworked stress-panic when that nightmare was
       | forced on me because Salesforce decided to double my
       | acquisition's workload by reorg'ing out 70% of our engineering
       | staff (while requiring the remaining 30% to pick up and maintain
       | -- and in some cases, bring into compliance -- the ownership
       | areas previously belonging to that other 70%).
       | 
       | Not a day has gone by that I've regretted it. Every night that I
       | can sleep well instead of being kept awake by Salesforce-induced
       | stress is a night I'm glad to have back from them.
        
       | bastawhiz wrote:
       | This is fascinating to read, but the thing that kept me going
       | through was the art from Glitch. What nostalgia those images
       | brought! It's a shame that none of the projects to revive the
       | game from the open sourced assets really took off. I wish Tiny
       | Speck had offered a way to subscribe to the game so that it
       | covered their operating expenses. It was really remarkable.
        
       | Eumenes wrote:
       | public servants deserve Microsoft Teams
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait
         | comments? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and
         | we eventually have to ban such accounts.
         | 
         | If you wouldn't mind reviewing
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the
         | intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
        
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