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How very lucky of you.

I hope you have a repeatable provision, AMI, static IP linked to a tcp loadbalancer and autoscaling group in the event AWS rotates out your instance.

And of course, the same goes for your logging and search and file sharing infrastructure. And of course, similar caveats exist for the database said features use.



If your file sharing infrastructure is limited to what Slack provides, then your file sharing infrastructure sucks. Slack is good for quick "check this outs", but it's not a file sharing system.


Well, you add the google docs integration, or the dropbox integration, or the box integration, or use the Zapier integration to tie things together.

Slack isn't a file sharing platform, it's a communication platform. As such, they try to make communicating about, discovery and grouping of files in dedicated file sharing platforms easier.


That's a terrible solution for anyone handling data that has to remain on-prem, which is the case for a lot of large corporations that deal with financial data, personal id data, etc.


Of course it's a bad solution in that case. You've picked a case where a specific business requirement precludes using an external service. In which case, why would you use slack anyway, since it would then necessitate a chunk of your communication be external as well?


how very sarcastic of you.

This is the realm of systems administrators, if you can't read a 20 line config file then sure, run slack..

but for a biggish company that values security and publishes NDA's like mine, an IRC server is a better solution.

however, Project Managers fucking -love- emoji and sending word documents across the planet.


How very decisive of you.

And you'd take on the burden of constellation of comparable services as opposed to a white label hipchat because....?




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