devops

Here at Mediacurrent, we use Slack for, well...just about everything. From talking shop on project teams to weekly knowledge share discussions, Slack forms the backbone of communications for our distributed team. That’s why on a recent project, when we had the need to monitor daily site cron jobs, posting these updates to a Slack channel felt like a natural solution. It prevented us from needing to log into a server to determine if a job ran successfully and provided visibility to the entire project team—if a job failed, everyone on the project team would be aware.

Web development can be complicated. When it comes to contributing to Drupal, either on one’s own time or as part of a job, one of the biggest problems beginners have is getting all of the tools working correctly. It can also be a source of frustration to people with plenty of experience too - maybe they would prefer to put time into writing witty blog posts, designing the perfect rounded corner, or throwing snowballs with their children, rather than dealing with server configuration haiku.