Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?

Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by ju-st on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:56AM (#13337869)

Ordering of stuff from central IT. I waited 3 months for my RSA token (which I need for working remotely). My boss waited 4 months for a dev server he desperately needs for a customer project. The request for the server was only processed when my boss talked to some other guy who knows someone from the central IT department. And the requested server wasn't even physical hardware but a virtual server!

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by iamdave on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:58AM (#13337895)

I waited 3 months for my RSA token (which I need for working remotely). My boss waited 4 months for a dev server he desperately needs for a customer project.

Pardon my language: holy shit.

How large is your organization??? All I do at work is build dev environments, manage credential storage, and every now and then get roped into server upgrades kicking and screaming...four months for a freaking dev environment???

FOUR? How does this happen?

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by wellsthrowaway on Friday January 06, 2017 @12:11PM (#13338024)

At Wells Fargo, I'd kill for a dev environment in general. We only do production-classified-as-dev. And 4 months? Slow down! We're six months...if you're lucky.

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by wlesieutre on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:11PM (#13339230)

How's that joke go? Everybody has a testing environment, some people are lucky enough to have a separate environment to run production in?

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by user5994461 on Friday January 06, 2017 @02:40PM (#13339478)

How do you guys manage to do anything?

Are you even trying?

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday January 06, 2017 @01:38PM (#13338918)

At Wells Fargo don't you kill if there is a sales incentive program to kill?

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by superuser2 on Friday January 06, 2017 @11:28PM (#13342364)

And people wonder why developers flock from "real" businesses to Silicon Valley.

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Re:Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your ... by atmosx on Friday January 06, 2017 @04:39PM (#13340459)

Seems like you guys should choose more wisely who you're doing business with.

There's no real excuse for delivering a dev server in 4 vm in months. You sure he ordered one server and not say a dedicated cluster of 4.000 servers?

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