Productivity Bots
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Pushpay automates its continuous delivery with dozens of internal bots and reports a clear productivity lift while deploying a monolith up to 10 times a day. Key concrete tools include a feature-flag cleaner that nags flags left on >30 days, a PR-review notifier and c-3po train bot that coordinates carriage-based deploys (roll call, auto-kick if not ready), a test-suite aggregator that posts failures to Slack, Octopus Deploy integration, Raygun and Sumo Logic alerts, plus password/AWS token rotation reminders. Problems: noise, discoverability, tight coupling and testability; a move to per-bot Lambdas is proposed.
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- 0:00Start
- 1:08WHAT IS A KIWI?
- 9:19DEVELOPMENT
- 24:08SHIPPING
- 31:46MONITORING
- 37:21PROBLEMS
- 42:47THE FUTURE?
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