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What if I didn't have the foresight to put that bot into the channel in the first place? Or what happens when the bot goes down? So now I really need to build
by enjo 11y ago
What if I didn't have the foresight to put that bot into the channel in the first place?
Or what happens when the bot goes down? So now I really need to build some alerting into it so that someone can restart the thing when it dies, or the server is upgraded, or it's moved.. because I'm losing valuable history along the way.
Or I can just use Slack.
The snark about developer skill is an interesting one, as you failed to actually solve the problem in your hypothetical.
- okasaki 11y agoSeems you've only explored failures for the IRC option. What happens when Slack closes? Or they change their payment plan? Or they decide that they don't like your project? Or they're acquired by Microsoft and stop supporting your OS? What if a rogue Slack employee spies on your chat and steals your secrets?
- chris_wot 11y agoSo slack manages everything for you with their service. They ensure their logger is always running, their web services is always available and a Miriam of other things. What you want is to outsource your messaging service. If you want this to be managed in-house, you must monitor the service as well. You can outsource IRC as well however, and they'll manage the boys and infrastructure for you. Not sure if I understand what the issue truly is here!