Hacker News with Generative AI: Operations

Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) (danslimmon.com)
Every ops team has some manual procedures that they haven’t gotten around to automating yet. Toil can never be totally eliminated.

Automation, DevOps, Operations, Scripting

582 points by tehnub 13 days ago | 157 comments

Show HN: Drafting AI – Human-in-the-loop AI automation for ops teams' email (getdrafting.com)
Hallucination-free AI isn't coming any time soon, so rather than take actions itself, our AI pre-fills tools for your team to use.

AI, Automation, Operations, Email, Software

29 points by jpochtar 86 days ago | 3 comments

The Ancients Had Ops (reedmeyerson.com)
While the “Dev” and “ML” parts of DevOps and MLOps are new1, the “Ops” part is ancient, and the properties of good Ops have remained constant from antiquity to present.

DevOps, History, Operations, Software Engineering

13 points by reedmeyerson 94 days ago | 1 comments

Migrating billions of records: moving Cloudflare DNS database while it's in use (cloudflare.com)
According to a survey done by W3Techs, as of October 2024, Cloudflare is used as an authoritative DNS provider by 14.5% of all websites.

Cloud Computing, DNS, Database Management, Operations, Technology

5 points by programd 98 days ago | 0 comments

How to delegate effectively as your responsibility grows (hitsubscribe.com)
I’m gearing up, like some kind of power washer, to spray new productized services into our operations group so they can SOP those services at scale. And because I’m doing that, this seemed like a good moment to draw on my experience, both in leadership roles and as a management consultant, and lay out a blueprint for internal delegation.