

DevOps is not just about developers and operations people working together or creating a culture of collaboration. It is about tightening the feedback flow. It is about working for the common good of your systems and applications. It is about learning from mistakes. These are all enabled by people and the tools that people use. Continuous delivery is a key enabler for DevOps because it helps you deploy and release your code with confidence.
We love Slack like you do because it is where we get things done at work. Slack applications are the gateway for our favorite tools like Intercom, Jira, Google Drive and many more. There are also ChatOps tools like OpsGenie’s Slack application focusing on improving collaboration and automation by bringing day to day to operational challenges into shared chat channels.
In 1970, a series of devastating wildfires swept across Southern California, destroying over 700 homes across 775 square miles in 13 days, resulting in more than $233 million in losses (over $1 billion in today’s dollars, adjusted for inflation). Thousands of firefighters from around the state and beyond responded, but found it very difficult to work together. They certainly knew how to fight fires, but lacked a common management framework that could scale up or down based on the needs of the incident. They also lacked a standardized approach for incident leadership, which extended beyond each individual fire department. Shortly thereafter, fire service leaders came together and created a new, and at that time, revolutionary system for managing incidents, capable of managing everyday fire and medical incidents to large scale incidents that make the national news. A new way of managing incidents was born that day!